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Wizardry to Wētā Verse
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Wizardry to Wētā Verse is a delightful collection of 75 poems crafted for 5-10-year-olds. Discover an array of enchanting themes: Keeping you awake poems DO NOT EAT THIS CAKE poems Blustery and breezy poems Sweeping through the seasons poems Metaphors and weather verse Wizardry to wētā...
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See more75 poems to read under the covers with a torch (of course), to ROAR (raaaah! raaaah!) into the wind (with a friend), to whisper mysteriously to your pet (or your weta), to tickle your ear and fizzzzzzz on your tongue!
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Description
Wizardry to Wētā Verse is a delightful collection of 75 poems crafted for 5-10-year-olds.
Discover an array of enchanting themes:
Keeping you awake poems
DO NOT EAT THIS CAKE poems
Blustery and breezy poems
Sweeping through the seasons poems
Metaphors and weather verse
Wizardry to wētā verse
Lonely and alone poems
Poems about poems poems
The universe, the earth, and space
Explore stranger worlds, a greener place
As you turn to the next new day, enjoy sleepy lions and lines that slip away.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781991150882
Publisher: The Cuba Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 November 2024
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Ahoy!
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 148.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 108
About the Author
Elena de Roo is one of Aotearoa New Zealand's foremost poets for children, with her work widely published in magazines and websites, and anthologies like A Treasury of NZ poems for Children and Roar, Squeak, Purr: a New Zealand Treasury of Animal Poems. She has also written children's books that have been published in the UK, Australia and Aotearoa, and she's been awarded three Storylines Notable Book Awards. In 2010 Elena was awarded the Todd New Writer's Bursary to write a collection of poems and Wizardry and Weta Verse is the long-awaited result. Elena is a co-founder of The Poets XYZ, whose mission is to encourage more poetry to be written for children and to set up a network of children's poets.
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