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Caterpillar Cake: Read-Aloud Poems to Brighten Your Day by Matt Goodfellow ill. Krina Patel-Sage

August 27, 2021 By achuka Leave a Comment

ACHUKA Book of the Day 27 Aug 2021
Shortlisted for 2022 CLiPPA Award

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A simply delightful collection of new poems for the very young. A must-have for anyone involved in early years education. Single-poet collections of this kind usually have four or five stand-out poems with the remainder a bit so-so. That’s not the case here. There’s only one somewhat weak poem in this book—a short counting poem which seems out of place with others in the collection, but maybe I’m missing something. The other 15 are superb and it’s hard to pick a favourite but I particularly liked ‘Hide and Seek’:

hide in a slipper
hide in a shoe
hide in a bottle
of PVA glue

Hardback picture-book poetry collections don’t come along very often, so treasure this one. Highly recommended for childminders, nurseries, Reception classes and, of course, parents of young children.

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