Skinny Dip: Poetry

Description

A new school year: nits, crushes, maths lessons, and rainy-day lunchtimes. But what happens when you send a bunch of poets to school? They loiter in corners and see between the lines. They notice the school bus is missing, there are hungry piranhas in the gym, that someone's painted everything blue. In Skinny Dip!, the makers of the best-selling Annuals bring you over thirty poems for young readers from all the New Zealand writers we love: Sam Duckor-Jones, essa may ranapiri, Bill Manhire, Anahera Gildea, Amy McDaid, Kotuku Nuttall, Ben Brown, Ashleigh Young, Rata Gordon, Dinah Hawken, Oscar Upperton, James Brown, Victor Rodger, Tim Upperton, Lynley Edmeades, Freya Daly Sadgrove, Renee Liang and Nick Ascroft. Edited by two of New Zealand's most astute and experienced champions of great books for young readers, and with stylish illustrations by Amy van Luijk, this witty collection gives young readers in years 7 to 10 and their teachers and whanau a crash-course in the range of poetic forms while having a whole lot of reading fun

Kate De Goldi is one of New Zealand's most respected champions of great books for young readers. She reviewed and discussed children's literature on National Radio for twenty years. She works with children in schools throughout New Zealand, promoting reading and teaching creative writing. She writes fiction for all ages and has published ten books. Susan Paris has twenty years' experience in publishing. She has edited the School Journal for fifteen years, producing more than fifty Journals. She has written Ready to Read titles and more than 40 chapter books for the educational market, both New Zealand and overseas. With Kate De Goldi she commissioned and edited the best-selling anthologies of children's writing, Annual and Annual 2.

'Bold and timely. A magnificent range of form from some of our best contemporary voices.' --Hera Lindsay Bird