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    How to Speak English More Good
    How to Speak English More Good
    How to Speak English More Good
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    How to Speak English More Good

    By Kevin Bower

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    Kevin Bower returns with some of his best
    work to date. New loveable characters,
    heroes to cheer and villains to jeer. Everyone will
    love this new selection of hilarious poems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateOct 23, 2012
    ISBN9781479736515
    How to Speak English More Good
    Author

    Kevin Bower

    Kevin Bower was born in Westmorland and now lives in Lancashire with his children who have infl uenced much of his literary work. He spent fi ve years caring for autistic children and now divides his time between working with adults with special needs and pursuing his love of writing.

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      How to Speak English More Good - Kevin Bower

      Copyright © 2012 by Kevin Bower.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      Contents

      Spacemanners

      Get Ready Toe Attack

      Got The Point

      Grizzly Mare

      Lern to spel

      It must’ve been

      A Gulp of Fresh Air

      Vegetable Match

      Shelter Skelter

      The Bogeyman

      Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

      Debra the Zebra

      Nasty Girls

      Who Knew?

      The Ballad of Neil the Nerd

      Gnome Comforts

      Football Mad

      The Floral Cup

      Bubblehead

      Flea Fly Fobia

      Octopoodle

      Hip Hip Oh No!

      A Testing Time

      Surprise

      Poor Girl

      Dragon to go

      Titanic Tale

      Hazelnut

      I wish, I wish, etc.

      Once I met a man

      Let Mum Drive

      The Train Driver’s Tombstone

      Penpal

      Solar Snooze

      Starlight

      Inventions

      Piles of Smiles

      How the Dinosaurs Died Out

      Ghostess

      The Big City

      Incey Wincey Hider

      Engl-ish

      Sports Day

      Small Squawk

      Headlights

      Déjà vu

      It’s in the Game

      Princess Joey

      Simon Says

      Believe

      Intergalactic Super Stellar Sheep

      Namesake

      Word on the Street

      Out For A Bite

      Not a Good Luck

      Intruder Window

      Nursery Crime

      Lucille

      The Horse Race

      Wildlife Park

      The Headless Horsepower Or The Head Gasket Horseman

      Nine Lives

      Hot stuff

      And Finally . . .

      Spacemanners

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      A peaceful group of aliens

      Had landed on the moon.

      They were having a little rest

      But they’d be on Earth quite soon.

      They didn’t want to hurt anyone,

      They really weren’t that bad.

      So they changed their guns from KILL

      To JUST A LITTLE SAD.

      Their spaceship landed loudly.

      You’ve never seen anything scarier.

      But then they had to move

      Because they were in a no parking area.

      Take us to your leader!

      The humans all fell to their knees.

      The aliens tried again . . .

      "Take us to your leader . . . please.

      We come in peace if

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