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    Glad Ballads: Poems for the Young at Heart
    Glad Ballads: Poems for the Young at Heart
    Glad Ballads: Poems for the Young at Heart
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    Glad Ballads: Poems for the Young at Heart

    By Kate Andrew

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    Both grown-ups and children will find poems to enjoy in this collection of lighthearted verses.

    They include people, animals, aliens and even geometric shapes with a life of their own!

    Happy reading!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeaten Track Publishing
    Release dateApr 23, 2024
    ISBN9781786455932
    Glad Ballads: Poems for the Young at Heart
    Author

    Kate Andrew

    Kate Andrew has published two previous children’s books, both illustrated by Chris Riddell: Beyond the Rolling River and The Prism Tree, available via Amazon or from the author. Animalimericks is her first self-illustrated book of verse, suitable for children from 3 to 93.

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      Book preview

      Glad Ballads - Kate Andrew

      GLAD BALLADS

      Poems for the Young at Heart

      Written by

      KATE ANDREW

      Illustrations by

      AGNES BURKE & KATE ANDREW

      Beaten Track Logo

      Beaten Track

      www.beatentrackpublishing.com

      Glad Ballads: Poems for the Young at Heart

      First published 2024 by Beaten Track Publishing

      Copyright © 2024 Kate Andrew

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent publisher.

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      Paperback ISBN: 978 1 78645 592 5

      eBook ISBN: 978 1 78645 593 2

      Beaten Track Publishing,

      Burscough, Lancashire.

      www.beatentrackpublishing.com

      Both grown-ups and children will find poems to enjoy in this collection of lighthearted verses.

      They include people, animals, aliens and even geometric shapes with a life of their own!

      Happy reading!

      Table of Contents

      Tea Leaving

      The Stubborn Chameleon

      Poodle News

      The Alien

      The Dragon’s Lament

      Diagnosis

      The Feline Philosophicals

      Limericks

      Reminiscence

      Kipper Capers

      Eternal Triangle?

      Cat’s Odyssey

      Intruder)

      Vignette

      The Thing That Goes Hump in the Night

      The Snail

      Sonnetina

      Black Peter)

      Just A Muse A-Musing

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