Wizardry to Wt Verse
By (Author) Elena De Roo
The Cuba Press
Ahoy!
1st November 2024
New Zealand
Children
Fiction
Paperback
108
Width 148mm, Height 210mm, Spine 8mm
75 poems for 510 year olds Keeping you awake poems DO NOT EAT THIS CAKE poems Blustery and breezy poems Sweeping through the seasons poems Metaphors and weather verse Wizardry to wt verse Lonely and alone poems Poems about poems poems The universe, the earth and space Stranger worlds, a greener place Turning to the next new day Sleepy lionslines that slip away
Elena de Roo is one of Aotearoa New Zealands foremost poets for children, with her work widely published in magazines and websites, and anthologies like A Treasury of NZ poems for Children and Roar, Squeak, Purr: a New Zealand Treasury of Animal Poems. She has also written childrens books that have been published in the UK, Australia and Aotearoa, and shes been awarded three Storylines Notable Book Awards. In 2010 Elena was awarded the Todd New Writers Bursary to write a collection of poems and Wizardry and Wt Verse is the long-awaited result. Elena is a co-founder of The Poets XYZ, whose mission is to encourage more poetry to be written for children and to set up a network of childrens poets.