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Brand new clubs that offered teenage boys the opportunity to meet celebrities, win prizes and enjoy many activities!
Reading Communities
The towns of Barry and Llanelli organised a whole host of book-based events over the summer and autumn!
Click here for more details of the 2008 Reading Communities.
Give a Book Week
Celebrities and members of the public throughout Wales gave each other books as gifts during this special week in July!
Click here to take a peek at the week's activities
Monthly Themes
July – Rhythm and rhyme
English Children
Ghostly Riders
Poems for juniors on a range of subjects – some interesting history topics, a little bit of haunting and Halloween, and lots of school-day events, as you’d expect from a former schoolteacher.
Poems for Underage Thinkers
Some call this anthology ‘iconoclastic’ – some call it trash – see what you think! It’s great on taking the mickey out of teenage targets, including poetry itself, and as such appeals to the intended audience!
Star in the Custard
A collection for juniors with wide-ranging themes and forms – a real mixed bag with exciting, lively illustrations.
Poet's House, The - An Anthology of Poems
A more sophisticated selection of poems – a huge range of subjects, tied into a school and home-life theme. Very accessible for KS3 readers, jauntily illustrated by Fran Evans.
Hoppers Series: What's Up, Jac?
More stories in rhyming couplets, this time from the author illustrator who’s good at knitting – well, Gran certainly is in the first title as she knits an unusual selection of garments for Jac’s animals, who later go off looking for mates! Look out for new titles in the series.
Animal Wall and Other Poems, The
More challenging poems, as one might expect from Gillian, but excellent in every way. The collection opens with a long narrative poem, centred on the stone walls of Cardiff Castle and the animal sculptures portrayed there.
Hoppers Series: Jumping the Waves - Sglod's Favourite Poems
A regular beach party of poems! Lots of different styles of verse, all presented in a simple, easy to enjoy format, accompanied by some very funny collage pictures.
Hoppers Series: Josh in the Jungle
An amusing story told in rhyming couplets, involving a lad transported from a pet shop into the colourful world of the jungle. Moves along with pace and panache - and a useful text for modelling! You’ll enjoy predicting the rhymes.
One Busy Book
A colourful selection of simple poems for infants. Lots of images and vocabulary for discussion. Available as a big book too!
Rapping on the Window
Easy rhymes in the ‘rap style’ covering a wide range of both historical and contemporary subjects – Twm Siôn Cati, Llandudno Pier, Henry VIII’s wives, Welsh rugby, Robin Hood and the Civil War in Wales. Great for reading aloud!
Thoughts like an Ocean - Poems for Children
A good collection, a wide selection - by many poets writing in English in Wales.
