Apes to Zebras: An A-Z of Shape Poems

by Liz Brownlee (Author), Liz Brownlee (Author), Sue Hardy-Dawson (Author), Roger Stevens (Author)

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Hardcover
2018
$14.76

This gorgeous collection of animal poems from Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson will entrance and delight in equal measure. Featuring a full alphabet of animals, birds, and insects, with the odd extinct or imaginary creature thrown in, these beautiful shape poems are a perfect way to introduce children to poetry. Some funny, some serious, there is something here for everyone. Book band: Dark Blue

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This gorgeous collection of animal poems from Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson will entrance and delight in equal measure. Featuring a full alphabet of animals, birds, and insects, with the odd extinct or imaginary creature thrown in, these beautiful shape poems are a perfect way to introduce children to poetry. Some funny, some serious, there is something here for everyone. Book band: Dark Blue

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Publisher: Bloomsbury Education
Published: 22 Mar 2018
ISBN 10: 1472929527
ISBN 13: 9781472929525
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years
Book Overview: A beautiful alphabet of animal shape poems, all the way from Apes to Zebras!

Media Reviews

An array of wonderful creatures feature in this captivating series of alphabet shape poems. From dinosaurs that are too big to fit on the page to mosquitos that are coming to get you, there's something to inform and delight children of all ages in this beautifully produced book. -- The Guardian's Best New Children's Books
This is an inspiring collection that really highlights how fascinating shape poems can be - and the imagination is your only limit when deciding how to set out your own poem. I love this book and hope it really enthuses children for poetry - it certainly deserves to. -- Parents in Touch
Featuring a full alphabetical array from the extraordinary and the exotic to the extinct and the non-existent from well-liked and recognised poets Liz Brownlee, Sue Hardy-Dawson & Roger Stevens, this will amaze, amuse and appeal to classes throughout the primary school and have them eagerly wanting to write their own shape poems. -- The Reader Teacher, @MrEPrimary
Apes to Zebras is eye-catchingly illustrated in bright colours with trailing, undulating text forming the shapes of the beasts. And as the poems are short and snappy, the book is ideal for sharing with EYFS children. -- QA Nursery
This is a book that will set children off on their own explorations of how words and images can be interlinked. -- Brian Moses, Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel Blog
Liz Brownlee, Sue Hardy-Dawson and Roger Stevens have created a truly memorable poetry book in 'Apes to Zebras'. They have selected almost laboratory like, perfect words with which to sculpt each animal focus into an image. Every subject is analysed, realised and almost eulogised in its own beautiful poem. -- Bookwagon
There is a beautiful simplicity in the text of the poems that allows you to appreciate the usage of words as a clear illustrative form... A fabulous resource for both home and school with tips for experimenting with your own shape poems. Enjoy! -- Philippa Rae, Kidscene
It has an immediate pleasure and impact and then the little details start to draw attention to themselves and my grin just gets wider and wider, marvelling at the sheer invention on display. And isn't this what a great reading experience should be like? I want to put them all up over my classroom! -- The Book Blog, North Somerset Teachers' Book Award

Author Bio

Roger Stevens is a poet, author, musician and artist. He has had more than twenty five books published and his poems have appeared in more than two hundred anthologies. Roger performs his poetry in schools, libraries and festivals and runs creative writing workshops for young and old. Roger founded the award-winning Poetry Zone website. Liz Brownlee is a poet and author and has had poems and children's poems included in over 60 anthologies. She uses many forms, including shape poetry, and is the author of Animal Magic, a collection of poems and facts about endangered animals. She lives in a village in the south west of England with her husband, her dog Lola, and her cat Milla. Sue Hardy-Dawson is a children's poet with several poems in current anthologies. She contributes regularly to new publications and has also worked on many community art projects both voluntarily and professionally. Her debut solo collection of poems, Where Zebras Go, published in Feb 2017.