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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... Read More
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75 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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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

Collections

Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Elena de Roo New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Children's Books New Zealand Published

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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