From two master storytellers, comes a hilarious, high-energy rhyming adventure! Get ready for a rapping and rhyming quest like no other. From school to the zoo, the beach and the museum, riotously funny and wildly ridiculous poems that will take the reader on a one-of-a-kind adventure, with MC Grammar and Michael ‘the mic’ Rosen as their guide.

• Rhymes about chocolate cake
• Raps about a hissing snake
• Rhymes about the school canteen
• Raps about curry flavoured ice cream
• Rhymes about books that are magic or scary
• Raps about bears who are grumpy and hairy

“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly

It is time to kick off a year of fact-tastic football! Packed with over 365 incredible stories, stats, goals and birthdays, there’s an amazing new football fact to discover every day of the year. Learn about your favourite players, great goals, super stadiums, marvellous mascots and much, much more! Illustrated throughout with hilarious cartoons, Football School Facts is the perfect gift for all young fans and their families to enjoy.

“Intelligent, inspiring, funny!” Head of Education, Premier League on the Football School series

Folklore and tales have been the lifeblood of every culture worldwide since the beginning of time. Similarly, legends have traversed this passage, believed to have a speck of truth nestled at their heart. Heroes and Villains pays homage to the glittering royal courts and journey through ancient landscapes and perilous voyages, meeting Arthur and Guinevere, the Queen of Sheba, Kubla Khan, Robin Hood, Joan of Arc, and Mulan along the way.
In this poetry collection you will also meet mythical beings such as the phoenix, yeti, dragon and kraken, as we witness them leap from travellers’ tales and compendiums into the world of verse.

“Every time we share these songs and rhymes with children, we create a bond. We make a bit of trust, a bit of care, a bit of love between us. Children need this in order to thrive and grow.” Michael Rosen.

Ladybird Songs and Rhymes for Every Day will show parents and carers how they can add songs into their everyday routine. These well-known songs are arranged into different times of the day – from morning and mealtimes to play time, bath and bed time – so you can use this book to fill your child’s day with lots of musical moments!

Daniela Sosa’s beautiful artwork bring each song to life and makes this the perfect gift for babies and toddlers.

Featuring beloved classics including Humpty Dumpty, Little Miss Muffet, Hickory Dickory Dock, Jack and Jill, Doctor Foster, Old MacDonald Had A Farm, Hot Cross Buns, I Can Sing A Rainbow, Wind the Bobbin Up, Mary Had A Little Lamb, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, The Wheels on the Bus, Incy Wincy Spider, Old King Cole, Five Fat Sausages and many more!

Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and many more, this moody and melancholy anthology celebrates the most famous – and tortured – poets.

WARNING: These poems might make you cry!

Fizzing with rhythm, energy and laughter, the 30 poems in Ready for Spaghetti delight in the details of children’s daily routines. “Up, up, uppity-up!”, the first poem announces, while the artwork shows a child leaping out of bed, ready to begin their morning; “Hush and a hush, soft and low”, chants the final poem, as children snuggle under their blankets after their day’s adventures. Full of affectionate observations of young children, which are beautifully continued in Polly Dunbar’s warm-hearted pictures, Michael Rosen’s poems are ideal for reading aloud with toddlers … and many grown-ups will soon know them by heart!

A brilliantly illustrated collection of 366 hilarious poems to keep you laughing all year round!

The Times Children’s Book of the Year 2023

Featured in New York Times Holiday Books for Children

Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2023

A wonderful gift for all ages, this beautifully produced anthology is rib-ticklingly funny to wryly witty, each poem in this uplifting collection is guaranteed to put a smile on your face! Whether it’s a poem about socks or spaniels, eggs or elephants, this bright and brilliant collection will bring you cheer and laughter every day. Perfect for reading aloud, sharing even more side-splitting hilarity with family and friends.

The spectacular range of poems for children includes work by John Agard, Maya Angelou, Hilaire Belloc, Brian Bilston, Lucille Clifton, Wendy Cope, Roald Dahl, Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, Ogden Nash, Grace Nichols, Jack Prelutsky, Michael Rosen, Christina Rossetti, Benjamin Zephaniah and many more.

“Laughter is definitely the top priority here in this bright, lively and uplifting poetry anthology for children” – Lucy Bannerman, The Times

“The visual production is outstanding… with bold, playful mixed-media illustrations that match the lighthearted loopiness.” – New York Times

“There are a myriad of ways to enjoy this collection… This makes the perfect gift… a whale of a time is guaranteed” – Gemma McLaughlin, The National