Roald Dahl How to Be a Writer: Gloriumptious Poetry
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- ISBN 9780241610787
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 201 x 247mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Who can be a writer? You can! Whether you want to write an epic narrative poem, say it all with a three-line haiku or get your friends laughing with a limerick, you can try them all here.
- Supports the Key Stage 2 curriculum for ages 7-11
- Packed full of fun activities and writing prompts to expand vocabulary and develop creative writing skills.
- Find out how to use swashboggling synonyms, awesome alliteration, and whizz-popping onomatopoeia.
- By the end of this book you’ll have written your very own gloriumptious poetry collection!
How to Be a Writer gives aspiring writers to room to get creative. Pick up a pen and have a go at new techniques and styles! Filled with tips and examples inspired by the world of Roald Dahl to spark ideas, and with plenty of space on the page to practise the skills needed for poetry writing.
Roald Dahl (Author)
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.
Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
Quentin Blake has illustrated more than three hundred books and was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. In 1980 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. In 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate and in 2013 he was knighted for services to illustration.
