“The Works has been a great go-to book for thousands of teachers for the last 25 years. Poetry needs space, time and ‘air’ so that children can find it, browse it, hear it and speak it. The Works does the work.” - Michael Rosen

The Works poetry collection celebrates 25 years! This special anniversary edition includes brand new lesson plans from poets including John Foster, Brian Moses, Valerie Bloom, and Pie Corbett. The Works contains all kinds of poems you'll need for school, but it is also a book full of wonderful poems that will delight every reader.

It includes rhymes, action poems, riddles, tongue-twisters, shape poems, puns, acrostics, haikus, tanka, kennings, couplets, short poems, lists, dialogues, monologues, eulogies, songs, limericks, tanka, nonsense poems, rap, narrative poetry, and performances, to name a few.

Includes poems from the best classic and contemporary poets, such as William Blake, Michael Rosen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Allan Ahlberg, W.H. Auden, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Roald Dahl, Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot, and William Shakespeare, and many others.

A book full of treasures to dive into again and again.

Pages: 608, Year of Publication: 0128, Dimensions: 13.1x13.1cm