Spaced Out
Space Poems Chosen by Brian Moses and James Carter
1st Edition
Published on 16. May 2019
128 pages
978-1-4729-6114-3 (ISBN)
Description
Blast off into space and explore the galaxies with a constellation of illustrated poems about the sun, moon and stars, black holes and worm holes, asteroids and meteorites, and even weird alien life forms.
From shape poems and free verse to rhymes, kennings and haikus, Spaced Out will take you on an intergalactic adventure. Join Brian Moses and James Carter and a wealth of new and established poets to discover your inner space cadet!
This starry collection is the perfect way to get children interested in poetry.
From shape poems and free verse to rhymes, kennings and haikus, Spaced Out will take you on an intergalactic adventure. Join Brian Moses and James Carter and a wealth of new and established poets to discover your inner space cadet!
This starry collection is the perfect way to get children interested in poetry.
Reviews / Votes
The poems will help you discover how old you are (4.76 billion years), learn about the doubts Martians have and how lonely the moon can be. The night sky will look different after reading this collection. * Independent Bookshop Week's The Best New Kids' Books, Summer 2019 * ... an imaginative anthology of poems in which the poets use celestial bodies, both natural and man-made, as vehicles to entertain and instruct. * Irish Examiner * Black holes, stars, moons, planets and aliens - everything and everyone you'd expect turns up in this collection of poems about space. * The Poetry Zone *More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Target group
Children/juvenile
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-6114-3 (9781472961143)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
05/2019
Bloomsbury Education
€10.50
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Persons
Brian Moses was a teacher for 13 years and has been a professional writer in schools, libraries, theatres and festivals since 1988. As one of Britain's favourite children's poets, he was commissioned by CBBC to write a poem for the Queen's 80th birthday which was then performed live on air. Brian is Reading Champion for the National Literacy Trust and Co-director of the Able Writers' Scheme he founded in 2002.
James Carter is a prize-winning poet and non-fiction writer. He travels all over the cosmos (well, Britain and sometimes beyond) with his melodica (aka Steve) to give lively poetry and music performances and workshops with the express intention of motivating, inspiring and giving confidence to young writers. As a lifelong space cadet, James has discovered that poems are the best place to gather all of his daydreamy thoughts.
James Carter is a prize-winning poet and non-fiction writer. He travels all over the cosmos (well, Britain and sometimes beyond) with his melodica (aka Steve) to give lively poetry and music performances and workshops with the express intention of motivating, inspiring and giving confidence to young writers. As a lifelong space cadet, James has discovered that poems are the best place to gather all of his daydreamy thoughts.
Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Copyright
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Looking Up
- The Shooting Stars
- The Point
- Don't Just Google the Night Sky
- Tonight
- Grains of Sand
- Moon Cat
- The Winter Moon and the Willow
- Total Eclipse
- Playing With Stars
- Walking to the Stars
- Space Poem
- The Moon and the Sun
- Moon
- From The Moon Was But a Chin of Gold
- The Moon Speaks!
- Only the Moon
- Old Moon
- Silver Song
- Tiny Moon
- From One Moon
- Moon Landing: July 20th 1969
- First Dog on the Moon
- Moonscape
- George, Don't Do That
- The Sun and the Hare
- The Aged Sun
- Eight Planets, A Billion Stars
- What Are the Great Eight?
- Thank You, Planet Theia...
- The Intergalactic Holiday Bus
- The Rise and Fall of Pluto
- Planet So-So
- Miranda the Frankenstein Moon
- Fishes Are Stars
- Stars
- Headfirst Into Stars
- Stargrazing
- Stars
- Black Holes and Other Dark Matters
- Black Hole
- Black Hole
- Recipe for Cosmic Cupcakes
- Galactic Waltz
- Perseids
- Perseids
- Comet Song
- Dazzle Dance
- Orange Star
- Space Junk
- The Monster That Ate the Universe
- Bang?
- Universal Haiku Quartet
- Last Chance
- Alien Life
- Imagine...
- The Great Galactic Ghoul
- Scalien
- Welcome
- Flight From Planet Earth
- Space Doubt
- The Aliens
- Old As New
- Science and Space Travel
- Now...
- Discs and Dishes
- The History of Nothing
- Galileo (1564-1642)
- The Big Bang
- Space Dog
- Earthling! Do You Know What You Are?
- The First Man In Space
- The International Space Station Above Our House
- A Star Called Christa
- The First Baby Born In Space
- The First Cosmonaut
- Astronaut School
- Acknowledgements
- Index of First Lines
- Index of Author Names
