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Off to school: poems for the playground

Name: Off to school: poems for the playground
ISBN: 9780750021500

School is anything but boring when classroom pets, wild dinner ladies and worm sandwiches surprise everyone!

playful funny lively imaginative

Genres

Poetry/Verse Humour Friendship/Family

What is Off to school: poems for the playground about?

A lively collection of poems celebrating the fun, silliness and surprises of school life. Meet classroom pets, curious pupils, wild dinner ladies and all the characters who make the school day memorable. From the teacher’s desk to the playground, these playful verses explore lessons, friendships, lunchtime antics and imaginative adventures, including the outrageous idea of making a worm sandwich. With poems by a range of popular children’s writers, this colourful anthology invites young readers to laugh, listen and enjoy the rhythm of words.

Pages

28 pages

Reading age

Early Reader (5-8)

This edition

1998

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