What I Like!

Name: What I Like!
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Gervase Phinn
ISBN: 9781786280770

Author: Gervase Phinn

Series: Poetry

Narrator: Gervase Phinn

Unabridged: 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Child's Play

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

This entertaining volume of verse for the very young is the perfect introduction to poetry. It includes poems about everything that is important to children: animals, family, food - and some very good jokes. Jane Eccles' humorous and wacky illustrations perfectly complement this lively and amusing collection.

About Gervase Phinn

Dr Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, educational consultant and visiting professor of education. For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools, then acted as General Adviser for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire, where he spent ten years as a school inspector - time that has provided much source material for his books. He has four grown up children and four grandchildren and lives near Doncaster. Visit Gervase's website, www.gervase-phinn.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom

Pre K-1st Grade Gervase Phinn's collection of poems for young children has mostly short poems using nonsense verse that are observations of what children like. The illustrations by Jane Eccles are brightly colored and look like they could have been drawn by children in crayon. The pictures make break......more