I don’t generally like jokey bios, but this from Max Alper about Erik Satie makes me smile …

This is so exciting!

I helped compile this list of illustrators for Jonathan. Thanks for the positive response from everyone so far! 😊😊😊

My #DressingGown poem

I enjoyed this book by John Mole, and the Index of First Lines provided some fine *found poems*

Although I’ve got nothing to flog,
It’s nice to be back on Brian’s blog.
It’s just a bit of jolly fun,
So hope you like it everyone!
Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭

Like pandas? Love penguins? (We do!)
Then this storytime is for you. Starting at 11 today, with the brilliant Zehra Hicks
Plus: goodie bags!
£5, redeemable against the adorable Panda & Penguin Find a Thing..

Another one for #NationalUnicornDay with fabulous illustrations by Emma ChichesterClark

My contribution to #NationalUnicornDay

Recently had a poem accepted for Australia’s School Magazine. Here’s one I made (considerably) earlier.

Fifty years’ addiction to collecting poetry hardbacks

Just a little taste of this amazing treasure trove of delight from Colin West more coming (when I am not on a windey road to Betws ) James Carter The Poetry Society CLPE

Children's poet Colin West Colin West says of my new book...

There once was a poet called Kenn
Who picked up his magical penn,
And wrote funny rhymes
Not just a few times,
But agenn and agenn and agenn.

👉Listen to Colin!👈😉

poetry4kids.com/news/leap-into…

What do you think of my new visor, folks? (Not to mention my instant hair regrowth) 😂😂😂

You’re probably thinking why am I showing this? Because, I think transparency is important. Everyone can look super successful and busy on social media. It’s ok to not be ok!

A backpacker packed for a picnic
His backpack he packed to the top
He popped in a Pippin
A pork pie, some pickle
A packet of peanuts
Some pieces of pizza
& plenty of pineapple pop
& when he had finished his packing
His backpack he put on his back
He’d popped in a Pippin etc etc.

Shirley Jones is 90 today. Here with Robert Preston singing Till There Was You (which some people still think is a Beatles song)

The Music Man Shirley Jones 'Till There Was You' - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=JLDsLe…

Been devouring this beauty of a book, The Star Whale, (Otter-Barry Books) very kindly sent by Nicola Davies with superb illustrations by petr horacek The poems are so varied in style and mood, and the illustrations complement them perfectly. Here a few of my favourite spreads.