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    Dad, You're Not Funny and other Poems: An Alphabet of Poems
    Dad, You're Not Funny and other Poems: An Alphabet of Poems
    Dad, You're Not Funny and other Poems: An Alphabet of Poems
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    Dad, You're Not Funny and other Poems: An Alphabet of Poems

    By Steve Turner and David Mostyn

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    Have you ever formed a secret club with friends? Or witnessed the flight of a cow?
    Have you ever heard a duck whistle? You haven't? Then read this book now.

    As always, Steve Turner's poems present a fresh and quirky view on life. Many of the poems in this collection are about childhood: school and holidays, dreams and monsters, food, friends...

    This collection of over seventy poems will entertain and interest children both in the classroom and at home. The themes and ideas are thought-provoking as well as witty and fun, and the entertaining cartoons reflect the mood of the poems.

    Steve Turner is the award-winning author of the best-selling poetry collection The Day I Fell Down the Toilet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLion Cub Books
    Release dateMay 17, 2024
    ISBN9781915748126
    Dad, You're Not Funny and other Poems: An Alphabet of Poems
    Author

    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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      Book preview

      Dad, You're Not Funny and other Poems - Steve Turner

      Other books by Steve Turner:

      The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems

      Don’t Take Your Elephant to School: An Alphabet of Poems

      Ten Silly Santas and Other Christmas Poems

      For Paul Crankshaw,

      my companion on so many

      childhood escapades

      Contents

      Introduction

      FAMILY AND FRIENDS

      The Best Dad

      Dad, You’re Not Funny

      Cranky, Scotty, Mooey and Me

      Sue Was Two

      Ten things Mums Never Say

      When Grandad Comes to Stay

      Kisses

      Shopping with Mum

      Best Friends

      FUN AND GAMES

      The Flying Wheel

      Pocket Money

      Mud

      Digging a Hole

      Travel Game

      The Monarch

      Knocking on Doors

      Countdown

      The Fair

      Tread on a Crack and You Marry a Rat…

      Alphabet

      You’re It!

      ROADS AND PLACES

      Secrets

      Haunted House

      In Our Garden

      Jubilee Road

      Heaven

      Cathedral

      LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

      The Queen of May

      Rag and Bone Man

      Cowboy

      The Teacher’s Gift

      Snogging

      Teddy Boy

      Stinker

      Miss Hart

      Bobby

      NEWS AND WEATHER

      Whether the Weather

      Christmas

      New Year’s Resolution

      It’s Fun to Have a Fever

      Fire!

      PC Buttle

      In My Day

      Get Off

      New Shoes

      December 19th

      Birth

      BODY AND SPIRIT

      Who Am I?

      The Skull

      Hair and Teeth and Face and Hands

      Gingerbread Man

      Food

      Elbows

      With My Hands

      Ghost Story

      Ode to a Nose

      Backwards

      ANIMALS AND INSECTS

      The Spider’s Excuse

      Miss Muffett

      Hey Diddle Diddle

      Hickory Digital Clock

      Cat

      Limerick

      A Dog Called Nothing

      THOUGHTS AND DREAMS

      What Did You Want to Be When You Grew up?

      That Little Word

      The Wheel

      Why Are You Late for School?

      I Want to Be

      The Future

      Introduction

      Welcome to my book of poetry. I hope that you’ll enjoy it. The title comes from something my son, Nathan, says when I make jokes – especially when I try to make him laugh in front of his friends, and even more especially if I try to make his friends laugh in front of him.

      The first question I get asked when I read my work in schools is – Where do you get your ideas from? So let me explain how I came to write Dad, You’re Not Funny.

      A lot of the poems are about when I was young. I wrote them because even though much has changed since then

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