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- ISBN 9781447286875
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 13 Aug 2015
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 9-11
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The Works 4 contains poems about everything and is divided into twenty-six alphabetical sections featuring poems about:
A the ark and other creatures, B boys' stuff, C celebrations and festivals, D dinosaurs, dragons and dodos, E elements, seasons and the natural world, F friends and families, G girls' stuff, H home life, I impossible, improbable and inexplicable, J journeys, K kissing and other subjects best avoided, L love, death, war and peace, M monsters, ghosts and scary things, N north, south, east and west, O ourselves and others, P places and people, Q queens, kings and historical stuff, R rescuing the world, S senses and feelings, T teachers and school, U unpleasant poems, V viewpoints, W wonder, X words and wordplay, Y young and old, Z zapping aliens and other space poems.
It also contains teachers' notes and a glossary of terms, including explanations of different poetic forms.
Pie Corbett writes and edits poetry books for children and resource books for teachers. To date he has published over fifty books and several key schemes. He has run writing workshops, performed poetry and told stories from one end of the country to the other. He has compiled a number of bestselling anthologies, including The Works 2 and The Works 4, and his first solo collection, Evidence of Dragons, was published in July 2011.
Gaby Morgan is the Editorial Director 6+ at Macmillan Children's Books. She has compiled many bestselling anthologies, including Christmas Poems, Poems from the First World War, Read Me and Laugh: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year and, with Pie Corbett, A First Poetry Book.
