A beautifully presented picture book with two front covers, the text can be read from front to back and vice versa. The mirror form poem meets in the middle in a stunning centrepiece image as the two children in the story (twins, one in an air balloon, the other a sailing boat) meet in the clouds!
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Badger’s having a hat party, and best friends Harry and Lil are invited. But just as Lil the Shrew is fetching her favourite hat from the washing line, it blows away – too high to rescue. Harry says it’s gone for good, but Lil has other ideas…
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When a hog and a shrew are best friends, it’s only so long before there’ll be a hullabaloo!
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A heart-warming rhyming adventure story about friendship, teamwork and teatime!
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These finely tuned poems are the fruit of Julia’s upbringing in a musical family, an affinity with the Classics, a fascination with the arc of time, and an unflinching scrutiny of love and personal relationships. The book concludes with a moving arrangement of pieces that explore the author’s experience of IVF: poems written with wry humour and with grace, which celebrate the mysteries of conception alongside the sometimes surreal business of medical intervention. The World’s Two Smallest Humans is an unforgettable read.
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Co-written with Julia’s brother (children’s composer Antony Copus), this is a fun-packed nativity musical featuring a tale about a Bethlehem cat who becomes curious about Mary and Joseph’s arrival at the inn.
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Packed with top tips on grammar, structure and style, this handy guide provides succinct and practical guidance on students’ most common writing concerns.
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These strong and vital poems hold science and art, time and timelessness in a tense balance. Dense, elliptical, and suggestive, they throw down a challenge to readers, urging us to be constantly on the move rather than stand still and stagnate.
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