Andrew Fusek Peters

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Biographical note:  Andrew Fusek Peters is a poet and author who has written and edited over 80 books for young people, many critically acclaimed. His children’s poems feature on the Poetry Archive, have been broadcast on radio and television and are widely anthologised. His poetry collections include Mad, Bad & Dangerously Haddock and, for older readers, Poems With Attitude. His novels include Ravenwood, published worldwide.

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EAN13:  9781844712779
ISBN:  9781844712779
Author:  Andrew Fusek Peters
Title:  Leaves are Like Traffic Lights
Series:  Children's Poetry Library
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  YDP
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  15-Apr-11
Extent:  112pp
Height:  178 mm
Width:  110 mm
Thickness:  8 mm
Weight:  168 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  NP
Price:  GBP 6.99
Price:  USD 9.95
Rights:  World

Short description/annotation:  Featuring turbo-charged trees, double agent forests and leaves that perform magic, this is a wide-ranging collection of fun, lyrical and thought-provoking poems. Some have already appeared on programmes such as Blue Peter, Poetry Please and BBC Poetry Pie. Others have delighted audiences up and down the country. There are new poems that celebrate the outdoors, tree-climbing, forest school, ecological matters and nature in the city, alongside a smattering of favourites from previous anthologies and collections. As ever Andrew infuses the poems with his bonkers and surreal imagination.

Main description:  Featuring turbo-charged trees, double agent forests and leaves that perform magic, this is a wide-ranging collection of fun, lyrical and thought-provoking poems. Some have already appeared on programmes such as Blue Peter, Poetry Please and BBC Poetry Pie. Others have delighted audiences up and down the country. There are new poems that celebrate the outdoors, tree-climbing, forest school, ecological matters and nature in the city, alongside a smattering of favourites from previous anthologies and collections. As ever Andrew infuses the poems with his bonkers and surreal imagination.

Table of contents:
Contents
Acknowledgements
Leaves Are Like Traffic Lights
Fight To The Death
Trees Don’t Go To School
The Time-Travelling Leaf
Autumn Rhythms
Top Secret Weather Report [Decoded]
Guy Forks
Leaf Song
My Brother The Tree
The No-No Bird
Hare Piece
The City Breathing
Easy Beyond Beleaf
December
Winter Garden Birds
Sledge
Winter Cookbook
Oak
Winter
Too Late Results
Imagination
Thief
The Gold-Leaf Gangster
What A Lark!
A Fussy Riddle
Keep Out!
Arrest That Tree!
Rhythm Of The Day
The Rubbish Man
Riddle-Me-Read
The Magician
The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Knitting
I Know That You Might Think It Odd
Journey Of A Tree
Water-Cycle
Alder
The Last Tree In The World
The Safest Place In The World
Pigeon
No Skateboarding Allowed
Ballad Of The Trees
Rain Song
Dambusters
The Old Mansion
Forest Fire, Greece
Loop The Loop
Summer Swim
Sunset
Tide & Seek
Night & Day
Riddle Me Time
Forest School
Forestry Commission Meeting Minutes
Slash & Burn
1. Lift That Leg, Doggy!
2. The Tree’s Reply
A Very Thin Riddle
A Tidy Poem
Sellout
Superfast
The Whole Wide Wood
Chant
Answers To Riddles

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Excerpt from book:  

The Old Mansion

The house stands still like a solitary crane
In a pool of deep green grass.
The windows dark as thundered rain,
Rooms all drowned in glass.

Shadow hen, now come to roost,
It pecked and gobbled the light.
Here, the house is only host
To the visiting fox of night.

House that once held charm and chime,
Now a bricked up box of air.
The thief has come and stolen time,
Silence dies: there’s no-one there.

This house is a washed up lonely shell
On the grey and windswept lea.
But cup your ear and listen well
To the hiss of the far off sea.

Unpublished endorsement:  Andrew Fusek Peters’ poems, like the man himself, have always been great performers — they make you stop and listen. These new poems do all that and more. They make you listen and look, look at the natural world around you. And they leave you thinking when they go.

Philip Gross

Unpublished endorsement:  Your zaniness reminded me of Eddie Izzard!

C. Jones, KS2 class teacher