Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems

by Steve Turner, David Mostyn (Illustrator)

Overview

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.

Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life.

This collection of over seventy poems for children by Steve Turner is regularly in the best-seller lists. Full of wit and fun, his thought-provoking poetry has been used by teachers in classrooms and entertained children at home over the years. These poems make an instant impact, as the themes and ideas in them offer lots of food for thought for young minds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781915748140
Publisher:	Lion Cub Books
Publication date:	05/17/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	7 - 9 Years

About the Author

STEVE TURNER is a performance poet and journalist. Author of several anthologies of adult verse, children's poetry and many rock biographies.
DAVID MOSTYN is a widely published cartoonist and illustrator.

Table of Contents

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 Grandparent's House
A Wee Poem
There Was an Old Woman
A Knees-Up With Words
The Ding-Song 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

Editorial Reviews

A best-selling collection of whacky, fun and thought provoking poetry for children

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