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Hi everyone ...what a buzz it was to see
so many of you at the Mildura festival.
I also performed as a special guest at
(and helped judge) the NSW Bush Poetry Championships recently up at the
Hunter Valley... congratulations to winners Terry regan and Claire Reynolds.
My big news is the release of my NEW BOOK of over 600 poems - designed
for Aussie kids to enjoy and recite.
I am so thrilled with this new book. I have never had so much fun compiling
a boo in my life!'
THE MEDIA RELEASE SAYS:
The Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids is the most comprehensive, authoritative
and definitive book of poetry ever published in Australia for children.
In this wonderfully eclectic collection the famous rub shoulders with
schoolyard rhymes, alphabets and nonsense verse.
Here old favourites,
that have been loved for generations, sit side by side an impressive
selection of modern verse that kids will enjoy reading, reciting, laughing
at, acting out and hearing, again and again.
There are poems to delight
and develop every child's sense of humour; poems to inspire and stretch
every child's imagination, verses to provoke a sense of wonder in every
child; playground verses that have been handed down over countless
years; and the largest collection of nonsense verse ever assembled.
All in all over 600 of the best verses for children in the English language
have been especially chosen for Aussie kids. Unashamedly the emphasis
is on Australian history and heritage - from Banjo Paterson and C J Dennis
right down to Max Fatchen and Colin Thiel - but Hilaire Belloc, Rudyard
Kipling, Spike Milligan and Robert Louis Stevenson are never far away.
There is a VERY special deal for mailorder customers from now until
Christmas. The Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids PLUS the Book of Australian
Popular Rhymed Verse for just $50 !!!! postage paid!
Our other big Christmas special is The ABC Book Of Australian Country
Music PLUS a copy of Australian Drinking Stories for just $40 Postage
paid!
Plans for Tamworth Festival are well under way and we will be announcing
the line up for the Tamworth shows SOON.
Take care and pace yourselves!
Jim
To order your special Christmas books -
click here
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