Illustrated by Shirin Adl
Review by The Mole
This bright book with it's many lovely illustrations is more about poetry than pictures. And, as the title suggests, they have one thing in common - games. Today we are encouraged to do active sports, but that's not for everyone and this collection covers baseball and football but also running and swimming, chess and scrabble, surfing and skateboarding - even computer games get a mention.
Many poems are describing the aspirations of the game or competition but some are just for fun. The poets selected come from around the world with some older poems from the likes of John Masefield and many ones such as Wes Magee and the editors of the anthology. The poems types vary tremendously from simple rhyme to blank verse, a Haiku and a shape poem. In some cases they are just short sections lifted from longer poems.
There really is poetry for everyone in this collection that is packaged for children but fun for everyone.
In the back is a list of all the sports mentioned and a brief resumé of them.
A really lovely book that will delight.
Publisher - Frances Lincoln
Genre -children's poetry book
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