What I Like!

This entertaining volume of verse for the very young is the perfect introduction to poetry. It includes poems about everything that is important to children: animals, family, food - and some very good jokes. Jane Eccles' humorous and wacky illustrations perfectly complement this lively and amusing collection.

By concentrating on everyday surroundings and events, this collection of verse is a perfect one for very young infants. This is a very useful book for any nursery and reception class teacher to keep nearby – the rhymes will fill in a few spare minutes, can be taught to the children for assemblies and other presentations, and will supplement material for many topics and projects within the National Curriculum. A wonderful resource!, Poetry can be an exciting and stimulating way to develop children’s language and literacy skills, and now there is a new collection of poems for the Foundation Stage. What I Like! from children’s poet, Gervase Phinn, features over 25 original verses about food, family, nursery and animals, as well as counting rhymes, nonsense verse and finger games., The irrepressible Gervase Phinn has bought out another brightly illustrated fun poetry book for Foundation Stage and KS1 (or 2). Included are some new takes on nursery rhymes – “Mary , Mary, quite contrary,/How does your garden grow?”/”I suggest you read a gardening book,/and then you’ll get to know!”, This sparkling collection includes poems about food, family, schools and animals, with counting rhymes, nonsense verses, finger games and some unusual treatments of familiar nursery rhymes. This is an excellent text for both Foundation Stage and Key Stage One, and an ideal introduction to poetry., A book of poems that are not deemed by my reviewer to match the title. ‘I don’t think they’re for very young children. I think it’s good. The poems are quite exciting.’ The Lucky Four-Leaf Clover made my reviewer giggle. When bending down to pick clover, father is butted by a goat and ends up falling flat on his face. Little Miss Mabel drew the response, ‘The picture of the snake who swallowed her plate is funny, and I like it because the boy is watching at the door.’ I hadn’t particularly noticed the boy, but now saw him clasping his hand over his mouth as he beholds the strangest of sights. I observed my reviewer taking a few seconds to study the picture for the inappropriately-named poem One to Ten. ‘The person who did the pictures actually counted the number of foxes – there are 34 of them – look, 34 foxes in a den.’