Cloud Soup E-Book

Kate Wakeling

• Herausgeber: The Emma Press
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Serie: The Emma Press Children's Poetry Books
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 31

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Bake a weird cake, pay a visit to the Deep, and get some inspiration for your very own word hoard! Anything is possible in the world of Cloud Soup, Kate Wakeling's breathlessly imaginative collection of poems for children. Quieter poems sit alongside riotously funny ones in this sequel to Moon Juice. Readers are encouraged to look more closely at clouds, water, dust and trees, and to reflect on the knottier areas of life.

Leseprobe

‘From the CLiPPA-winning Kate Wakeling comes a second volume of poetry, Cloud Soup, illustrated by Elīna Brasliņa with squiggly, cheerful charm. Both limpidly welcoming and profoundly meaningful, some of these poems, on subjects from weird cakes to good ideas, bodies, dust and Antarctica, will surely stay with their enthralled readers for ever.’ The Guardian

‘She is eloquent and thoughtful and, without striving for effect or reaching for the rhetorical flourish, moves effortlessly from the humdrum to the magical, the everyday to the universal… This is the poet not as show-off entertainer or all-wise seer but as an exemplar, an enviably eloquent and subtle facilitator, who seems to be saying: this is my story, what is yours?’ Books for Keeps

‘A delightful collection of poetry… Uplifting and thought-provoking.’ The Scotsman

‘This is a poet at the height of her powers whose love of language and rhythms combine to dazzling effect… This collection has everything – poems to get discussion flowing, poems just to love for the sound of the words, poems to inspire writing. It is the best kind of book.’ Just Imagine

OTHERTITLESAVAILABLEFROMTHEEMMAPRESS

POETRYCOLLECTIONSFORCHILDREN

Moon Juice, by Kate Wakeling

Wain, by Rachel Plummer

Super Guppy, by Edward van de Vendel, translated from Dutch by David Colmer

Poems the Wind Blew In, by Karmelo C Iribarren, translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

My Sneezes Are Perfect, by Rakhshan Rizwan

THEMEDPOETRYANTHOLOGIESFORCHILDREN

Falling Out of the Sky: Poems about Myths and Monsters

Watcher of the Skies: Poems about Space and Aliens

The Head that Wears a Crown: Poems about Kings and Queens

Dragons of the Prime: Poems about Dinosaurs

The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me: A Book of Insect Poems

PICTUREBOOKSFORCHILDREN

Queen of Seagulls, by Rūta Briede, translated from Latvian by Elīna Brasliņa

The Dog Who Found Sorrow, by Rūta Briede, translated from Latvian by Elīna Brasliņa

Bicki-Books 1-12, by various

When It Rains, by Rassi Narika, translated from Indonesian by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi Degoul and Emma Wright

POETRYPAMPHLETSFORADULTS

Sandsnarl, by Jon Stone

This House, by Rehema Njambi

is, thinks Pearl, by Julia Bird

Pilgrim, by Lisabelle Tay

What the House Taught Us, by Anne Bailey

For Mum (who never once turned into a lion)

THEEMMAPRESS

First published in the UK in 2021 by The Emma Press Ltd.

Reprinted in 2022.

Poems © Kate Wakeling 2021.

Illustrations © Elīna Brasliņa 2021.

All rights reserved.

The right of Kate Wakeling and Elīna Brasliņa to be identified as the creators of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

ISBN 978-1-912915-74-3

ePub ISBN: 978-1-912915-75-0

A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

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Contents

Some Other Names for Rain

Mr Mangle’s Beard

Stick Insect

Weird Cake

Bodies

Cloud Song

The Goblins

Paean (or Eleven Uses for a Garden Pea)

The water in the glass you are holding right now

Toucan

The Deep

The School for Ghouls

I, ROBOT

To the Last Dinosaur Standing

I am looking at this painting called Blue Circus by Marc Chagall

Why Good Ideas Might Also Be a Bit Like Moths

13 Slippery Facts about Antarctica

Grandma and the Sea

Just Dust

The Absolutely Worst Food in the World

The Flibbit

I Just Have a Few Questions

The Poem Says No

In Praise of the Guinea Pig

Wardrobe Monkeys

The Day Mum Turned into a Lion

Word Hoard

The Day of Silence

Bad Dream Poem

The Skull Clock

Walking Poem

The Baddies: A Miscellany

Nose Can Do

Tree

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