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📚 🧒🏻👶🏻 Today is National Young Readers’ Day, so – noses into books, all you kids out there! Or get yourself comfortable and listen up to whoever may be reading to you! There’s plenty to choose from… Sitting comfortably?… Happy reading, whatever your age and whatever you’re reading! 📕As for snakes, I’ve never actually seen…
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🦔🦔🦔 Having a bonfire? Do take care to check for hedgehogs first! They have a hard enough time as it is! Take the struggles of this little fellow, for instance, just trying to find a safe and nutritious patch to graze in my poem here – which you’ll find in my new book, Squeak! Squawk!…
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I’ve been rehearsing some firework actions to do with children in some upcoming poetry sessions, and thought I’d share them here for any teachers, parents or child carers who may find them handy. I also include – not shown here – Catherine wheels (curly whirlies), starting slowly, then building up speed until fast as a…
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🎇 Hi teachers, parents, families and child carers!Here’s a fun firework rhyme that your children can join in! Make the sounds, do the shapes, join in the “Snap! Crackle!” chorus, and help your young creators think up more exciting verses! Click for YouTube link:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BwTBgF64M0w
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So touched to receive this photograph of a boy reading Squeak! Squawk! Roar!, seemingly absorbed in the poems during a train journey! Many thanks to both mother and son for sending me this charming picture, and for allowing me to share it here on my website. 🙏🏻
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Choosing for kids can be tricky, but perhaps my fun, punchy book of animal rhymes, SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR!, may offer a solution – lots to laugh at, plenty of pictures, shiny, bright cover, nice price, perfect present! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZusG_OMDY6c
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Help! Disaster! Fire and smoke! Robin’s trod on Batman’s cloak! Torn a rip right up the back! He’ll have to wear his anorak. 🦇
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🎃Happy Halloween!🪄Here are some silly magic spells for the kids. (Harmless – no turning people into frogs!) Hopefully, children will get a chuckle out of these rhymes, and perhaps find themselves inventing their own, with this format as a framework. 🪄🪄🪄
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Here’s a lovable – if slightly daft – werewolf that no child need fear at Halloween:A Werewolf’s PleaYou’ll find lots more rhymes, poems and creative ideas for your family or school class on my YouTube channel too: KatesPoems111. https://www.youtube.com/@KatesPoems111. See also my spooky one for older children: Jack o’ Tricks – a fantasy rhyme for…
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Here’s ‘Nobody’ – an eerie Halloween poem for brave listeners aged about 8 and up. Click here for the link – if you dare! Can be enjoyed at home with all the family or in classrooms at school. 👻👻👻
Kate Williams 