Get
ready to meet a tortoise on a trampoline, a
cat who bites back and
a poor little rich dog. Find out what
all the fashionable ferrets are wearing at the moment -
and why it's not a good idea to serve a cat the wrong kind of cat
food!!! All this and more in...
There's
a Hamster in the Fast Lane
A fantastic collection of poems chosen by
Brian Moses
and published by Macmillan Children's Books.
To
find out more about this book or to order a copy from Amazon click
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WINNING
POEMS
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do not have everyone's addresses! If you are a winner - please check
the list at the end. And if your prize doesn't arrive within three
weeks, send us an email.)
Imagine
This by Paul Battison
Can
you imagine an ant the size of an elephant?
If not can you imagine an elephant the size of an ant?
Well if you can't carry on reading!
Try and imagine a monkey the size of a crumb!
If you can you're amazing!
IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE!!!
The
Absurd Aardvark by Smriti Ramakrishnan
(aged 9)
I
once met an ant-eater in the South Pole,
And all he was doing was eating shoal after shoal
Of fish, and then he said,
"What a bore, what a bore
I really, really would adore
To do something else, I know I'm a nerd,
I know I'm clever,
But I don't want to eat for ever and ever.
I want to do something different, like learn how to sing.
Maybe you could teach me something?"
So
in the end I taught him how to sing,
And he did quite well for a beginner at the beginning.
But now he orders me around
And doesn't give me even a pound.
The lesson to learn from this is,
Don't go to the South Pole and try to be a whiz,
Because I'm dead sure you'll end up like me,
Working for an absurd aardvark, without a fee.'
If
I Could Be a... Bird by Amila Keerthichandra (aged 10)
If I were a bird
I would sing aloud
And do different tricks
In front of the crowd.
If I were an eagle
I would smoothly glide
I would have different kind of feathers
On either side.
I would be the most beautiful
Of them all
I would proudly fly
And never fall.
While flying in the sky
Beautiful scenarios I'd see
Without rain and wind
How happy I could be.
Clean
Bat by Sam (aged 12)
The
bat with the hat lived alone in a flat
Just above the Laundromat
He cleaned his wings with a great big vat
Of Bat-U-Clean which he bought from a cat
And kept inside his pack-a-mac
What do you think about that?
Tom
and Jerry by Violet Macdonald
I
used to watch Tom and Jerry.
Tom
put a fire cracker in the mouse hole
Jerry put dynamite in the teapot
Tom tried to smoke him out
Jerry put a mouse trap on Tom's bed.
Then
Tom stroked his whiskers
Grabbed the mouse by its tail
Strapped him to a toy railroad
And sent the train running.
My
cat, Tom, he's a bit like that.
Strange. Y'know?
Zippy
by Agata Grudzinska (aged 11)
I'm
Zippy the pencil case
I was made from the start
With the glamorous coat
Of attractive designs
I'm a tiger from nature
With orange and yellow stripes
Black whiskers and my soft coat
I adore with my whole life
I've got four paws
And a black cute nose
Two black eyes
That people love the most
I'm sick of people unzipping me
And putting their hands in my tummy
It's like I need an operation
5 days a week like a dummy!
The Crazy Spotted Puppy by
Robin Cassady
He
jumped, he barked, he yelped, he howled.
He played, he nibbled, he ate, he drank.
He was spotted, with white and brown and black.
His hair was found everywhere from all that he shed,
Like the familiar bear, his name was Max.
Being calm, cool, and collected was something he lacked.
Animal
Mix by Lucy (aged 10)
Flamingos,
what a funny bunch
Lounging around the muddy lake
On to donkeys in a field
Eayore, eayore they cry
What would happen if they mixed?
A pink donkey on one leg!
Strange I know but there it is.
Bee
by Kili
Agamaite (aged 7)
I think I need to really flee
Because I see a Carpenter Bee!
When the bee changed color
I had to call my mother.
She told me to lose my brother
I lost him and lost my other!
I told that bee to flee in front of me
But he said, "I won't flee!"
You'll flee, in front of ME!
And so I did.
Bewilderbeast by Sarah Bloom
I
am often bewildered
By the wilderbeast
Why doesn't it stay
For the animals' feast
It wanders off and eats alone
A pickled egg and an ice cream cone
At
the party the animals like to chat
They wear party frocks
And a paper hat
But the animal who enjoys it the least
Is invariably the wilderbeast
Take
the fast lane back to the top?
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Roger.
