Dragons and wolves

Dragons don't always breathe fire. Wolves don't just howl

Poetry is one of the best ways for any young reader to develop a long-lasting love of language.

The quirkily-illustrated poems in this collection encourage young readers (approx 6 - 13) to love the rhythm, power, sound, feel, and meanings of words. Anyone who reads aloud to children will enjoy bringing the many different worlds and stories to life.

Young readers who enjoy word-pictures, unusual ideas, or unexpected endings will find a rich supply in this collection to amuse, interest or surprise them.

There are rhyming poems, but there are also many examples of haiku, senryu, acrostic, and free verse. There is even an experimental dragon sonnet!

There are fearsome dragons and strange dragons like Hose Nose who has a unique way of helping his local fire brigade. There are wolves of fairytale fame and those who haunt landscapes beneath cold moons. These are poems written to be fun and others written to be thought-provoking or darker. A few poems even set readers a direct challenge.

The poems for each of the creatures are organised so that those for younger readers come before those that give older readers a wider range of ideas or challenges to think about or interpret.