Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems

Steve Turner

Description

Have you ever been punched by a cabbage, or fallen head first down the loo? Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven't? Then this book's for you. 'Steve Turner's first collection of verse for children is full of quirky humour and strong rhymes to read aloud' Children and quite a few adults will enjoy the poems in this collection. Pollution, religion, growing up and families are just some of the topics the author uses for this amusing anthology. I rate this collection as good as those by Roger McGough and Brian Patten." Hull Daily Mail 'Full of quirky humour and strong rhymes that kids adore.' Brian Patten 'Steve Turner is one of the most original and child-friendly voices to emerge in the last few years.' Sunday Telegraph 'Highly observant, often poignant, sometimes naughty and always fresh and funny.' Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit 'This hilarious collection of poems will make you laugh out loud.' The Young Telegraph

Informations

• Publié par: Lion Hudson
• Date de parution: 18 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780745968193
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

The Day
I Fell Down
the Toilet
and
Other Poems
Other poetry books by Steve Turner
Dad, You’re Not Funny
The Moon Has Got His Pants On
Don’t Take Your Elephant To School
I Was Only Asking

Text copyright © 1996 Steve Turner
Illustrations copyright © 1996 David Mostyn
This edition copyright © 1997 Lion Hudson IP Limited
The right of Steve Turner to be identified as the author and of David Mostyn to be identified as the illustrator of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Published by
Lion Hudson Limited
Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Business Park,
Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, England
www.lionhudson.com
ISBN 978 0 7459 6819 8
First edition 1996
This edition 1997
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Contents
I Like Words
First Word
I Like Words
Language
Wriggle
Wouldn’t It Be Funny?
The Naming of the Animals
What Am I?
Words I Like
Rhythm and Rhyme
Heartbeat
Seasons
Drip Drip Drip
Breathing.
Jack and Jill
Boring Boring Boring
InterCity Train
Like This… Like That
As Good as This
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose
What Have You Done to the Wind?
Sun
Butterflies
It’s Raining Cats and Dogs
Sitting by a Summer Pool
Who Was I Before I Was Born?
Memory and Magic
I Like the World
The Jumping Game
Old Swear Word
Sleepy Time
Spell
In the Beginning.
Standing On My Head
Other Ways of Seeing Things
Upside Down
Ghosts
I Am the Sea
TV Dinner
The Vegetables Strike Back
The Final Straw
I’ll Run Away From Home
Who Am I?
The Olden Days
God Is Still Making Up Numbers
Who Made the World?
Hard to Please
It Wasn’t Me
My Dad
I Can’t Sit Still
Who’s a Lovely Girl?
Messages to the World
Who Made a Mess?
All We Need
Television News
I Know the Santa
More Sweets
Telling Tales
Inside My Head
What I Did Last Night
The Day I Fell Down the Toilet
The Death of a Fly
Nightmare on the Game Machine
My Grandparents’ House
A Wee Poem
There Was an Old Woman
A Knees-Up With Words
The Ding-Dong Song
A Knees-Up With Words
Punch-Line
Week
Tomorrow
Bottoms
Bugler Bill
Putting It All Together
Strings and Things
The Worst School in the World
Lists
Snail
Fireworks
My Teacher
Nobody Likes You When You Grow Up

I Like Words
First Word
The first word I said was ‘gaagaa’,
Which was shortly followed by ‘goo’,
And then I stuck them together
To see what a sentence would do.
My Mother was really impressed.
She said, ‘Who’s a googoo booboo?’
Quick as a flash I responded,
‘Oo-gaagaa agoogoo googoo’.
I Like Words
I like words.
Do you like words?
Words aren’t hard to find:
Words on walls and words in books,
Words deep in your mind.
Words in jokes
That make you laugh,
Words that seem to smell.
Words that end up inside out,
Words you cannot spell.
Words that fly
And words that crawl,
Words that screech and bump.
Words that glide and words that swing,
Words that bounce and jump.
Words that paint
And words that draw,
Words that make you grin.
Words that make you shake and sweat,
Words that touch your skin.

Words of love
That keep you warm,
Words that make you glad.
Words that hit you, words that hurt,
Words that make you sad.
Words in French
And words in slang,
Words like ‘guy’ and ‘dude’,
Words you make up, words you steal,
Words they say are rude.
I like words.
Do you like words?
Words come out and play.
Words are free and words are friends,
Words are great to say.
Language
Dogs bark
Mice squeak
Cats purr
I speak.

Wriggle
Wriggle is a wriggly word.
It runs down from its wrig
Then squiggles on its iggle
And ligs back to its igg.
Wouldn’t It Be Funny?
Wouldn’t it be funny
if a clock said moo
and a cow when it was
tickled said tick?
Wouldn’t it be funny
if a tongue went sniff
and a nose when it was
runny went lick?
Wouldn’t it be funny
if bombs went wobble
while a jelly on a
trolley went bang?
Wouldn’t it be funny
if a bell went bounce
but a ball if it should
fall went clang?
Wouldn’t it be funny
if a crisp went fizz
while the cola in a
bottle went crack?