Really Rotten Rhymes E-Book

Gabriel Fitzmaurice

• Herausgeber: Mercier Press
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Based on the author's experiences as a teacher, as a parent, and as a big kid himself, these classic rhymes present the really rotten moments that children relish. These are rhymes that children, young and old, will enjoy repeating to themselves and to friends – they're rotten and they're slightly, but nicely, rude. The children love them, their grown-ups pretend to be less amused (but in secret they love them too!)

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Text © Gabriel Fitzmaurice, 2007

Illustrations © Alice Coleman, 2020

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ISBN: 978 1 78117 740 2

eBook ISBN: 978 1 78117 791 4

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Contents

Introduction

A Messy Eater

A Cross Boy

A Pimple on your Backside

An Apple for the Teacher

Belly Buttons

A Stinky Poem

A Walk in the Country

At the Zoo

At the Seaside

Aunt Jane

Bursting Pimples

‘Bottom’

Checkin’ my Wellies for Spiders

Do Teachers Fart?

Diarrhoea

Did you ever Eat a Worm?

Dreamy Thomas

He Blows his Nose in the Tea-Towel

He Sings when he’s on the Toilet

Her First Flight

How Noreen Got Stuck in her Knickers

How High?

I’d Like to Be

I Swallowed my Tooth when I Was Young

Jacko

Johnny Manners

‘I Forgot’

Johnny’s False Teeth

Infant

Mikey Spuds

Kissing on the Telly

Love your Bum

Mussel

My New Blue Knickers

My Yoghurt Spilled in my Bag

Onion Eater

Number Two

Piddling Song

Pooh

Porridge

Snots

Shampoo

Something Attempted, Something Done

The Champion

Puke

Spider

Sunburn

Snotty Tanner

Strimming the Garden

The Parcel

The True Story of Little Miss Muffet

SPLAT!

The First Christmas

The Kangaroo

When you Make a Smelly

Introduction

When I was a kid, we learned poetry (off by heart) in school. Much of it was difficult and dull – at least to this kid’s mind it was. But what saved poetry for me were the nursery rhymes I had learned at home and the rhymes we learned on the street. I loved them – they were ours: kids’ rhymes for kids. Our street rhymes were real, they were naughty, they were cool – the kind of rhymes you wouldn’t repeat in front of your parents. We took great delight in the fact that we could share them secretly among ourselves.

These Really Rotten Rhymes, drawn from my experience as a child, a parent and a teacher, are, I hope, poems that will appeal to that ADULTS KEEP OUT place that is so special to a child. They will, I know, also touch the child’s (even if it is the naughty child’s) place in many adult hearts. Lewd, crude and rude or deliciously disgusting? They are both, I hope.

Enjoy!

Gabriel Fitzmaurice