Description
Why is it
The roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawn
Wakes us so early?
A warrior king is on fire!
His armour is all crooked daggers and scimitars
And it’s shivering red-hot – with rage!
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains ‘a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment’ (The School Librarian).
Counting Backwards 
The Lover's Pinch 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
The Skies Above My Eyes 
States of Happiness 
Lammas Alanna 
Spiritlands 
101 Poems About Childhood 
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah 
The Hundred Years' War 
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
Surrealist Poetry 
A Children's Treasury of Milligan 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
The Smeds and the Smoos