Hey Crazy Riddle

Trish Cooke

Frances Lincoln

1845073789

Mar 2006

The mood is light, the rhythm is tight in this collection of fast tempo poems published as the second book in Frances Lincoln’s new fiction range for 8 ‘ 12 year olds. Trish Cooke ‘ familiar to many as the award-winning author of popular picture book ‘So Much’ ‘ brings lightness of touch and great verve to these exuberant explanations of how dog lost his bone, why wasp can’t make honey and’ of course, the eponymous ‘Hey Crazy Riddle’.
In the author’s note, Trish explains how she is still able to hear her father’s mischievous voice teasing as he used to when he told her the stories. This lends the poems a real sense of heritage and you cannot help but feel a part of an age-old oral tradition when reading them aloud ‘ and they must be read aloud and be allowed to be shared, because it is then that they become alive!