This book is a masterful, short but jam-packed collection of poems by Roald Dahl, that most pre-eminent of Englishly encouraging kids' writers. Children and adults alike will find much of delightingly subcultural echo herein; it builds on a foundation that is folkloric and immaterial to look at - but which undergirds a heroic span of shared subconscious poetic or notherwise elements in the British-European consciousness.
A marvellous key of a book to my own head's journey, the perfect soundtrack to my heartsong as I read it - Quentin Blake's illustrations are just the icing on the cake. Hilarious at times, heartbreakingly real or rawkily rude in others - this would probably be in my top seven or eight poetry books of all time that I've read, Full-Authorship Compendiums notwithstanding.
A marvellous key of a book to my own head's journey, the perfect soundtrack to my heartsong as I read it - Quentin Blake's illustrations are just the icing on the cake. Hilarious at times, heartbreakingly real or rawkily rude in others - this would probably be in my top seven or eight poetry books of all time that I've read, Full-Authorship Compendiums notwithstanding.
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