Hello H2O
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Hello H2O
By (Author) John Agard
Illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura
Hachette Children's Group
Hodder Children's Books
3rd October 2013
3rd October 2013
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
821
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
80g
Description
From water-vapour to robots and outer-space to water, this highly original collection from John Agard, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, explores everything exciting about science. Delighting in the wonder and oddities physics, biology and chemistry have to offer, these poems will bring out the scientist in you!
Reviews
beautifully produced...a celebration of science and poetry. * Bookfest *
Author Bio
John Agard was born in Guyana and emigrated to Britain in 1977. He has worked as an actor and a performer with a jazz group and spent several years with the Commonwealth Institute, travelling all over Britain giving talks, performances and workshops. He has visited literally thousands of schools.
His poem 'Half-caste' is on the AQA Englsih GCSE syllabus, and every year he tours the country performing with other top poets for GCSE students. His children's poetry includes WE ANIMALS WOULD LIKE A WORD WITH YOU, POINTS OF VIEW WITH PROFESSOR PEEKABOO, LAUGHTER IS AN EGG, and COME BACK TO ME MY BOOMERANG. He lives in Sussex and is married to Grace Nichols, herself a respected Caribbean poet. They have a daughter.