Ngā pukapuka
For the tamariki & mokopuna
TIGER, TIGER, BURNING BRIGHT!
selected by Fiona Waters, illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.
(Nosy Crow, $55)
Poetry is such a delight to children. There is something about the rhymes and the imagery it creates that can hold a child captivated and also encourage them to learn new words and phrases and repeat them over and over.
This is an anthology of poems about animals, with one poem for every day of the year but I challenge you to read one a day. There are many old favourites in here, such as “Baa, baa, black sheep” and “Firefly, firefly, light me to bed”, but there are also new poems you won’t have read before to excite you and your whānau. My new
