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If You Could See Laughter (Children's Poetry Library) Paperback – 1 Oct. 2010
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- Reading age5 - 7 years
- Print length68 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions11.1 x 0.43 x 17.78 cm
- PublisherSALT PUBLISHING
- Publication date1 Oct. 2010
- ISBN-10184471487X
- ISBN-13978-1844714872
Product description
Review
This book is exactly what it should be: useful, practical and detailed but also inspiring, enlightening and far-reaching. Writers as well as teachers will find it invaluable. I recommend it whole-heatedly.
-- Andrew Motion on Our thoughts are beesReview
Teasing, provoking, sharing an irrepressible delight in the world around us, Mandy Coe's poems brim with a love of nature, a relish for colours, shapes, sounds and show by example what a wonderful, infinitely malleable thing our language is. This collection is wonderful to read alone, but will prove to be an essential teaching aid for any educator who wants to share a love of language and of simply being alive. She liberates the poet in all of us, old or young.
-- Sherry AshworthAbout the Author
Mandy Coe is an award winning poet and artist. She has published six books including thee collections of poetry for adults and one for children. Her work has been featured on BBC television and radio and she reads at literature events across the UK. As a freelance writer, Mandy works alongside community groups and inner-city schools. Her guide to the work of writers in schools (Our thoughts are bees, co-written with Jean Sprackland) is described as ‘inspiring, enlightening and far-reaching’ (Andrew Motion). Mandy Coe’s first collection Pinning the Tail on the Donkey was short-listed for the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize. Her poetry for children is anthologized by Hodder Wayland, Oxford University Press and Bloomsbury. Mandy is a Hawthornden Fellow.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
If You Could See Laughter
Hey, it is blue! No, surely red
--the colour of each breath
pumped out by the joy of running
or the jumpstart of a joke.
Tickle-breath is long and spiral.
Pink
I think.
If you could see laughter
it would look like balloons,
the sort magicians knot in squeaky twists.
Laugh a giraffe, guffaw a poodle.
A belly-laugh creates balloons that float,
at the pantomime, the air of the theatre
jostles with colour.
See this baby reaching for your smile?
A yellow hiccup of laughter pops out,
bobs above us for days.
We could rise off the ground with laughter,
tie strings on it and sail around the world.
Product details
- Publisher : SALT PUBLISHING (1 Oct. 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 68 pages
- ISBN-10 : 184471487X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1844714872
- Reading age : 5 - 7 years
- Dimensions : 11.1 x 0.43 x 17.78 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 1,320,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 531 in Poetry for Young Adults
- 5,923 in Poetry for Children (Books)
- 72,842 in Poetry, Drama & Criticism
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 October 2010This is the first poetry book I have been asked to review and I am uncertain as to where to start. The book is a collection of Mandy Coe's work and is her first collection for children. The book contains over 50 poems covering a wide range of topics, many which have been written by Mandy along with a few written by others.
I started reading the poems from the beginning of the book and the first poem, 'Advice For', immediately got my attention and imagination going. This was continued throughout the book - who would of known that a poem about rhubarb would be written! I also loved the poem 'Wish' about a woman's life.
I really enjoyed reading these poems and the book is just the right size to slip into a pocket or bag for those moments where a spare few minutes can be filled with a good book.