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All sorts of animals can be found inside my book – Squeak! Squawk! Roar! – recommended by BookTrust, School Reading List and many other respected reviewers. Feedback reveals the poems are being enjoyed by 5-11 year olds, on different levels. More animal photos to come. Watch this space.🐾 Kate
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Encourage rich language – metallic colours, texture words, flying words like floaty, gliding, sailing, crunchy words. They go drifting(?) through the …. sky like …? I’m Kate Williams and my book is Squeak! Squawk! Roar! (Animal poems).
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Happy National Poetry Day everyone! Me with Welsh Children’s Poet Laureate Alex Wharton, sharing the stage in Monmouth last year. With Wonder as the theme this year, look no further than the Children’s Poetry Summit for a wonderful dazzle of Wonder Animal poems, and Wonder (any and everything) poems! Delighted to see my poem ‘My…
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Children from St Michael’s RC Primary School in Bury read and assessed my book, Squeak! Squawk! Roar!, soon after publication last year. Here’s what they said – followed by what their teachers said. Thanks so much, children! Thank you, teachers! So glad you all enjoyed the book. Many thanks all, belatedly, for your 5 star…
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One of the many great assets of poetry books for children is that they almost always come richly illustrated! What fun for children, and how helpful for the new or unsure reader, to have pictures popping up here, there and everywhere through the book! Squeak! Squawk! Roar! is no exception, with countless gorgeous pictures by…
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So happy to see my Squeak! Squawk! Roar! included again in the 2026 Books for Topics recommendations! This fabulous review was published soon after the book, last year, together with inclusion in recommended listings for two categories – and now, so it’s great to see it still holding strong, amid new titles for ’26! “A…
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“This is a marvellous poetry collection,” starts Sandy’s review of Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Many thanks indeed, Sandy – belatedly – for your dazzling review! First in the list too – you didn’t wait a moment to share your thumbs-up for the book! So happy that Sandy loves the book as much as her six year…
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“A compact powerhouse of poems” – Bookwagon.Looking through the reviews for Squeak! Squawk! Roar! (all 5-star!), I re-read Bookwagon’s appreciative response and decided it deserved to be shared. So here it is: “Squeak! Squawk! Roar! £8.99 Squeak! Squawk! Roar! Readers are invited to join a trail of Amazing Animal Poems. We might have a wasp join our ‘picnic…
