Picture A Poem

by Gina Douthwaite (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.44

  Meet 'Normous Norman, Thin Tim, Sidney the Kidney and all the other people, animals and objects whose shapes are created by the text of their poems. Here are somersaulting poems, rocket-launching poems, hair-styling poems and poems that simply delight and surprise. Gina Douthwaite's ingenious words leap, dance, sweep and creep their way across the pages in a visual feast created by startling and innovative typography. A perfect way to introduce children to the amazing possibilities of poetry.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.44

  Introducing children to the possibilties of poetry, Gina Douthwaite's poems leap, dance, creep and sweep their way across the pages in a visual display created by innovative typography. Normous Norman, Thin Tim, Sidney the Kidney are some of the characters and objects whose shapes are created by the text of their poems. There are also somersaulting poems, rocket launching poems, mountain-climbing poems and poems that surprise.