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    Moon Juice: Poems for Children
    Moon Juice: Poems for Children
    Moon Juice: Poems for Children
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    Moon Juice: Poems for Children

    By Kate Wakeling and Elīna Brasliņa

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    Meet Skig, who's meant to be a warrior (but is really more of a worrier). Meet a giddy comet, skidding across the sky with her tail on fire. Put a marvellous new machine in your pocket and maybe you'll be able to fix all your life's problems.
    Kate Wakeling's first book of poems for children is full of curious characters and strange situations. The poems she writes are always musical, sometimes magical, and full of wonder at the weirdness of the world.
    Moon Juice contains 25 poems and features bonus materials, including interviews with the author and the illustrator, and ideas for writing your own poems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Emma Press
    Release dateJul 14, 2017
    ISBN9781910139578
    Moon Juice: Poems for Children
    Author

    Kate Wakeling

    Kate Wakeling is a poet and musicologist. Her debut poetry collection for children, Moon Juice, won the CLiPPA in 2017 and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her second collection, Cloud Soup, was shortlisted for the CLiPPA in 2022 and named a book of the month in the Guardian and the Scotsman. A pamphlet of Kate’s poetry for adults, The Rainbow Faults, is published by The Rialto. Kate studied music at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Balinese gamelan music from SOAS.

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      Book preview

      Moon Juice - Kate Wakeling

      Dedication

      For Dad

      Copyright

      First published in ebook format in Great Britain in 2017 by the Emma Press Ltd

      First published in print in Great Britain in 2016 by the Emma Press Ltd

      Poems copyright © Kate Wakeling 2016

      Illustrations copyright © Elīna Brasliņa 2016

      All rights reserved.

      The right of Kate Wakeling and Elīna Brasliņa to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work respectively has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      eISBN 978-1-910139-57-8

      ISBN 978-1-910139-49-3

      A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

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      Contents

      Dedication

      Copyright

      * * *

      1. New Moon

      2. Skig the Warrior

      3. Bad Moods

      4. Comet

      5. Instruments of Use

      6. My Ghost Sister

      7. Hair Piece

      8. Jungle Cat

      9. Rich Pickings

      10. THE INSTRUCTIONS

      11. Hamster Man

      12. Night Journey

      13. Thief

      14. Little-Known Facts

      15. I Found a Dinosaur Under the Shed

      16. Machine

      17. The Serpent and the Turtle (or: A Very Balinese Beginning)

      18. The Spy Café

      19. Telescope

      20. The Demon Mouth

      21. Dodo

      22. Spirit Bridge

      24. Shadow Boy

      24. Rita the Pirate

      25. The Ten Dark Toes at the Bottom of the Bed

      26. This be the scale

      * * *

      Moon Juice Bonus Bits

      About the poet

      About the illustrator

      Interview with Kate

      Interview with Elīna

      Write your own poem!

      About the Emma Press

      Also from the Emma Press

      The Noisy Classroom

      Watcher of the Skies

      Falling Out of the Sky

      New Moon

      Moon is

      silver sliver.

      Moon is

      clipped cup

      from which to sip

      a first drop

      of freshly-pressed

      moon juice.

      Moon is

      somersaulting C

      in the best moon font.

      Moon is fickle flickerer.

      Moon is

      new lunar lantern

      to track a star or two.

      But mostly,

      moon is

      shy to

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