Overview

Love poetry and romantic prose extracts are enduring favourites. Many classic poems and stories revolve around this theme in its many facets, including humorous poems. This anthology will appeal to teenagers' romantic streak, while adults - teachers as well as parents - will enjoy the classic content. There are also a number of less well-known poems and prose extracts in the collection.

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9781840465235

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'A resonant sampling of both standards and lesser-known gems.' -- Publishers Weekly 'The selection is brilliant, creating cross-currents, complications, and time travelling coincidences to challenge intelligent readers.' -- Times Educational Supplement

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Jacqueline Wilson has been on countless shortlists and won numerous awards, including The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award in 1995 for The Bed and Breakfast Star, the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Children's Book Award for Double Act. The Illustrated Mum was on the shortlist for the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book Award and has won the 1999 Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. Over 10 million copies of her books have now been sold in the UK alone. Double Act was voted the nation's 10th favourite children's book, and Wilson was voted as the 4th favourite children's author. In June 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for services to literacy in schools.

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