Overview

The Fantasy Kid collects together Rupert Loydell's poems for children, teenagers and the young-at-heart, all of which have been test-driven by the author at schools, festivals, libraries and readings around the country. Whether making excuses at school, pondering questions about the nature of chocolate, serenading slugs, saying good bye to a starfish, introducing us to Doctor Fizz and Alvin the Aardvark, or remembering holidays with distant relatives, these poems are witty, irreverent, memorable and odd - although this book has a serious side too ...Look out! The Fantasy Kid is coming to your town, and your world will never be the same again.

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Author:   Rupert M. Loydell ,  Tim Salter
Publisher:   Salt Publishing
Imprint:   Salt Publishing
Volume:   8
Dimensions:   Width: 10.90cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.144kg
ISBN:  

9781844717941

ISBN 10:   1844717941
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   15 September 2010
Recommended Age:   From 9
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children's (6-12)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements The TV Went Away Today Poem to Order We Don't Do That One Anymore A Nice School The Teachers a (o) Wilberforce Grommett-Smith The Fantasy Kid If You Were Made Of Chocolate Excuses Morning Poem Full Sea Dusk Sunset Days of Rain River, in Flood Snow Frost Tonight Winter Triptych Spider Happy Hippy Poem Timeless Spiral Weld Doctor Fizz Alpine Zoo, Innsbruck Found Animal Rights Poem Teflon Finial And Alvin The Aardvark Slugs Poetic Blues A Few Moments of Freedom M6 Motorbike Back Seat Driver This Train Truant & Fly I Surfed Home On The Motorway Who's A Lucky Boy Then? A Right Charlie No One Made MashLike My Grandad! Distant Relations Glorious Norfolk Broads Keeping the Same Tension Me and the Missus The Pedlar of Winds Tree Stump November the Fifth Love Poem Firework Finale Missing Persons Nobody Clown My Pebble River Poem For A Girl Putting A Starfish Back Into The Sea Lullaby

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Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He is the author of many books of poetry, including A Conference of Voices and the forthcoming Boombox!, as well as several collaborative works; he also paints small abstract paintings. He lives in a creekside village in Cornwall with his family and far too many books and CDs.

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