Someone I Like: Poems About People

Product Description Children and adults alike will be captivated by both the poetry and the illustrations in this exceptional anthology. Judith Nicholls has brought together the work of poets from many different backgrounds with poems that focus on the people who are dearest to us. Spanning the full range of human emotions, the poems in Someone I Like provide an ideal starting point from which to discuss feelings of anger, sadness, happiness and love that characterise our closest relationships. Review 'The 26 poems in this volume feature different poetic styles, dialects, and vocabulary while showing universal ideas about friendship and family.... Manna's delicate watercolour-and-ink illustrations on pastel backgrounds create a comfortable mood for talking with youngsters about the more serious poems on death and feelings.... This volume is particularly suited to individual or small group readings where listeners can enhance their understanding through the images in the art.' --School Library Journal'Someone I Like fulfills its goal, creating a children's book that crosses barriers and offers poetry that takes on real issues.... Each poem invites children to participate in a very substantial way.... Some children will delight in the sounds of the poems, some in the content, and others will find joy in both.' --BookPage'This collection of 26 poems, each brief and vivid, focuses on relationships familiar to all children. Feelings about parents, granddads, aunts, siblings, friends, and teachers, with their dark and light edges, are all deftly captured in barely a cup of words.' --Booklist About the Author Judith Nicholls is one of England's best-known children's poets. She is the writer and compiler of nearly fifty books of poetry and her poems are broadcast regularly on BBC Radio for Schools and can be found in well over 500 anthologies. She has also appeared on poetry programmes for schools television, including 'Three Poets in a Zoo' and 'Words and Pictures.' Judith has taught all age groups and, as a writer-in-education, has taken part in performances and workshops with the pupils and teachers of over 500 schools. Married with three children and six grandchildren, Judith lives in Wiltshire. Giovanni Manna is an award-winning Italian artist whose distinctive illustrations have been exhibited worldwide. Swing High, Swing Low (2005) is his sixth book for Barefoot, joining The Barefoot Book of Giants, Ghosts and Goblins (1999), Someone I Like (2000), You and Me(2000), First Morning (2001) and The Barefoot Book of Knights (2002). Giovanni lives in Bologna, Italy, with his wife and daughter.