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    Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems
    Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems
    Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems
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    Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems

    By Steve Turner and David Mostyn

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    Have you ever been punched by a cabbage or fallen head first down the loo?
    Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven't? Then this book's for you.

    Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life.

    This collection of over seventy poems for children by Steve Turner is regularly in the best-seller lists. Full of wit and fun, his thought-provoking poetry has been used by teachers in classrooms and entertained children at home over the years. These poems make an instant impact, as the themes and ideas in them offer lots of food for thought for young minds.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLion Cub Books
    Release dateMay 17, 2024
    ISBN9781915748140
    Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems
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    Steve Turner

    Steve Turnerbegan his journalistic career as Features Editor of the British rock monthly Beat Instrumental . He has written many music biographies, including Conversations with Eric Clapton , Rattle and Hum (U2), and A Hard Day's Write (the Beatles).

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      Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems - Steve Turner

      Other books by Steve Turner:

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      Contents

      I LIKE WORDS

      First Word

      I Like Words

      Language

      Wriggle

      Wouldn’t It Be Funny?

      The Naming of the Animals

      What Am I?

      Words I Like

      RHYTHM AND RHYME

      Heartbeat

      Seasons

      Drip Drip Drip

      Breathing

      Jack and Jill

      Boring Boring Boring

      Intercity Train

      LIKE THIS… LIKE THAT

      As Good as This

      My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose

      What Have You Done to the Wind?

      Sun

      Butterflies

      It’s Raining Cats and Dogs

      Sitting by a Summer Pool

      Who Was I Before I Was Born?

      MEMORY AND MAGIC

      I Like the World

      The Jumping Game

      Old Swear Word

      Sleepy Time

      Spell

      In the Beginning

      Standing On My Head

      OTHER WAYS OF SEEING THINGS

      Upside Down

      Ghosts

      I Am the Sea

      TV Dinner

      The Vegetables Strike Back

      The Final Straw

      I’ll Run Away From Home

      WHO AM I?

      The Olden Days

      God Is Still Making Up Numbers

      Who Made the World?

      Hard to Please

      It Wasn’t Me

      My Dad

      I Can’t Sit Still

      Who’s a Lovely Girl?

      MESSAGES TO THE WORLD

      Who Made a Mess?

      All We Need

      Television News

      I Know the Santa

      More Sweets

      TELLING TALES

      Inside My Head

      What I Did Last Night

      The Day I Fell Down the Toilet

      The Death of a Fly

      Nightmare on Game Street

      My Grandparents’ House

      A Wee Poem

      There Was an Old Woman

      A KNEES-UP WITH WORDS

      The Ding-Dong Song

      A Knees-up With Words

      Punchline

      Week

      Tomorrow

      Bottoms

      Bugler Bill

      PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

      Strings and Things

      The Worst School in the World

      Lists

      Snail

      Fireworks

      My Teacher

      Nobody Likes You When You Grow up

      I LIKE WORDS

      First Word

      The first word I said was ‘gaagaa’,

      Which was shortly followed by ‘goo’,

      And then I stuck them together

      To see what a sentence would do.

      My mother was really impressed.

      She said, ‘Who’s a googoo booboo?’

      Quick as a flash I responded,

      ‘Oo-gaagaa agoogoo googoo’.

      I Like Words

      I like words.

      Do you like words?

      Words aren’t hard to find:

      Words on walls and words in books,

      Words deep in your mind.

      Words in jokes

      That

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