Collected Poems

by Allan Ahlberg (Author), Charlotte Voake (Illustrator), Charlotte Voake (Illustrator), Allan Ahlberg (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $14.61

  Allan Ahlberg's five poetry books, written over a period of twenty-five years - Please Mrs Butler , Heard it in the Playground , Friendly Matches , The Mighty Slide and The Mysteries of Zigomar - have delighted generations of children and received many accolades and prizes. Allan has sifted through them and chosen a collection to delight and entrance a new generation of readers and their parents. Here are all the trials and tribulations of childhood, embracing school, quarrels, friendships, football and storytelling from a much-loved author and poet. Charlotte Voake's black-and-white illustrations enchance the charm of this handsome and definitive collection.