Shuffle and Squelch

Description

Kick your boots off, everyone. Summer's here and so's the sun. Bright, bold and accessible, this collection of poems is packed full of noises and actions - perfect for joining in. There are counting rhymes and animal rhymes, rhymes to make you shuffle and squelch and clatter and patter, and rhymes to make you gallop like a horse or slide down the banister. Julia Donaldson's verse jumps off the page and Nick Sharratt's snazzy illustrations add to the fun.

Julia Donaldson, the 2011-2013 Children's Laureate, is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world's most-loved picture books including The Gruffalo and What The Ladybird Heard. She also writes poems, plays, songs and fiction for older children and, together with her husband Malcolm, has performed her wonderful stage shows all over the world. Nick Sharratt is a prize-winning artist who has illustrated many books for children of all ages, most notably in the stories of Jacqueline Wilson. His picture book collaborations with Julia Donaldson include Chocolate Mousse For Greedy Goose, Hippo Has a Hat, One Mole Digging a Hole, Toddle Waddle and Animal Music. His many bestselling picture and novelty books also include the Lift-The-Flap Fairy Tales for Macmillan.

Will animate, engage and stimulate babies and have nursery classes jumping about with noisy enthusiasm. * Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week *