The Friendly Octopus And Other Poems About Animals

Animals big and small feature in this colourful and enjoyable collection of animal poems.

This anthology of poems, compiled by Brian Moses, contains a mix of light-hearted poems and more serious ones, poems that rhyme and those that don't. There are plenty of good 'read alouds', thumping choruses, and the sort of poems that children can use as models for their own writing. Poetry is a key feature of the new National Curriculum and these fantastic poems are perfectly suited for this. Beautiful illustrations bring each poem vividly to life.

Story in rhyme about marine and sea life.

Play along with Olive Octopus and her underwater friends in this noisy collection of animal poems adapted from the best-selling picture book, Commotion in the ocean.

Turn storytime into a fun learning experience with this charming alphabet book about octopuses! Introduce your little one to the ocean world of octopuses! This gorgeously illustrated children’s book teaches kids octopus-related first words beginning with the letter O. Go on a delightful adventure with octopuses! The friendly, read-aloud text and exciting illustrations will capture the attention of young nature-lovers in no time! Babies and toddlers will love learning new words about octopuses while practicing their O letter sound. This baby book is ideal for promoting early learning and language development. O is for objects! Did you know that octopuses can pick up objects with their eight arms? Packed with bright pictures and short text, this engaging animal book provides curious kids with lots to talk about and look at! Explore the Undersea World of Octopuses Prepare your child for the magic of reading! Filled with simple, playful facts, O is for Octopus is the perfect ABC book for toddlers aged 0-3 years. They’ll learn that octopuses lay oval-shaped eggs, what they eat, and which other sea creatures they are related to. It’s a must-have for every young child’s library! Complete the Series: Introduce little ones to the ABCs of the animal kingdom with DK’s brand new, beautifully illustrated alphabet series. From X is for X-ray Fish and Q is for Quokka all the way up to E is for Elephant and I is for Iguana, these baby board books are perfect for parents wanting to support young children’s interest in nature, animals, and the alphabet.

In Quick, Said the Bird, Richard Swigg makes the case for acoustics as the basis of the linkages, kinships, and inter-illuminations of a major twentieth-century literary relationship. Outsiders in their home terrain who nevertheless continued to reach back to their own American vocal identities, Williams, Eliot, and Moore embody a unique lineage that can be traced from their first significant works (1909-1918) to the 1960s.

Joint Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018. In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O'Malley's sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland's west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and mythical, a trout is seen to 'swallow light through his skin', a wolf 'howls the great open vowel of his need', and in the emptiness where a tree once stood, 'a tree-shaped brightness dances'. Over the course of the collection, O'Malley twins the Irish west coast with the American east coast, Inis Mór with Coney Island, the parish with the metropolis, the pipes with the axe, each offering its own comfort and wonder. Sylvia Plath, Lois Lane and Antigone feature in an unlikely cast of heroines through which O'Malley tests the mythologies of motherhood and femininity ('no mother is ever good enough until she's dead', writes the poet, with characteristic wit). Playing the Octopus is a body of writing buoyed by the redemptive power and sustaining joy of music, and it closes with O'Malley's translations of the Irish poet Seán Ó Ríordáin and the Spaniard Federico García Lorca.