Twiddling Your Thumbs: Hand Rhymes

Paperback

Main Details

Title Twiddling Your Thumbs: Hand Rhymes
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Wendy Cope
Illustrated by Sally Kindberg
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:32
Dimensions(mm): Height 247,Width 215
ISBN/Barcode 9780571165377
ClassificationsDewey:821.914
Audience
Primary & Secondary Education
Edition Main
Illustrations full colour illustrations throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 26 October 1992
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Beware of Jaws and meet Georgie, Thomasina, Serendipity the Snail and other characters in this collection of hand rhymes. Arranged in order of increasing difficulty, these rhymes are designed for use at home or in the classroom. Wendy Cope is the author of The River Girl.

Author Biography

Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university she worked for fifteen years as a primary-school teacher in London. Her first collection of poems, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, was published in 1986 and her most recent, Anecdotal Evidence, in 2018. In 1987 she received a Cholmondeley Award for poetry and in 1995 the American Academy of Arts and Letters Michael Braude Award. Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 was published in 2008.