Here at Edspire HQ we love poetry. We love reading aloud from poetry books, we love sharing our favourites, memorising and reciting classics, performing poems and writing our own. There are so many wonderful poetry collections for children and the shelves are filling with every passing year with strikingly designed illustrated books of poetry.
This one is a new favourite especially with Esther who was grinning from ear to ear when she found a poem about dyslexia referencing Gandalf! Thank you Joe Cook for Dislexic Poim. The children keep copywork journals and this has been lovingly copied into Esther’s.
This book is filled with positivity and inspiring words for young readers. Each of the carefully chosen poems are about courage and empowerment. This is a book filled with feel good vibes. This is a book designed to give young people the courage to be confident, strong and free. I would have LOVED this book as young teenage girl. These pages are joyful creative celebrations of culture, heritage, learning differences, different mindsets, expressing yourself, finding your voice and being proud of who you are.
These are poems to treasure and share. Poems that will lift hearts and fill souls and feed minds.
Poems by a brilliant and diverse cast of contemporary writers. Many of whom we now want to find out what else they have written.
The poetry is complemented by vibrant stunning artwork resulting in this brilliant and beautiful book that would make a gorgeous gift for young readers.
Courage In A Poem is an exciting and essential collection of poems for classrooms, libraries and homes and the perfect anthology to kickstart a lifelong love of poetry and a way to encourage young people to believe in themselves and be confident in themselves.
I cannot wait to gift this book to some very special young people in my life x
“You are the chorus of a song
The bass line and the beat
You are clapping hands
And shouts of joy
You are the spotlights’s heat”
Cecilia Knapp
“So when you feel the sight and the pressure
Remember that’s how diamonds are made in nature
It’s not a learning difficulty
We just learn differently”
Joe Cook