Humour, magic and an engaging seriousness combine to make All the Frogs a must for the poetry bookshelf. Charles Causley has described John Mole’s writing for children as ‘the work of a true poet’ and the anthologist Anne Harvey, reviewing an earlier collection in ‘The Guardian’ wrote ‘A new John Mole collection is good news!’

The poems in Bookside Down are written about and for 21st children, who are into their friends, the TV, Wiis, DS’s, computers, collectibles and things that make them laugh. The aim is to entertain children, while giving them a good idea of how many weird and wonderful things poetry can do.

Cuckoo Rock creates a magical, elemental, questioning journey in search of a lost tomorrow through fire, earth, air and water meeting lots of wonderful knockabout musical characters on the way in poetry that is various, heartfelt, witty, skilfully rhymed and beautifully rhythmic.

This book is a celebration of who we are; the good stuff, our amazing senses, language, love, gossip and cheese. John Siddique's poems blast off the page into real life or they can melt as gently as a snowflake on your tongue.

Being born; falling in love (though not, please not, with Jenny); dancing the locomotion; fighting on the playground; being a little frightened: all human life, as they used to say, is here. The book also contains an attempt on a world record – for the shortest poem ever written.

This is a book of very accessible, crafted poetry for children of seven years old and upwards, with a balance of rhyming poems and non-rhyming poems, amusing poems and serious poems. It ranges from pieces about animals and nature to poems about space, school, and family. It includes some nonsense and riddles, and two long story poems.

Poetry about childhood that offers a window into another world, the world of a childhood from fifty years back. A childhood straight out of The Dangerous Book for Boys where adventures were there for the taking. Read about the joys, the dangers and the yucky bits of a childhood far removed from today’s.

If You Could See Laughter is Mandy Coe’s first collection of poetry for children. An award-winning poet, Mandy Coe has been commissioned by CBeebies, the Book Trust, the Barbican and National Poetry Day to write poems and educational material for children of all ages. Her poetry has been described as ‘…literally spell-binding’.