Need cheering up? Bored? Want to amuse your friends? Then read this book — and have a good old chuckle. Here are hilarious and very silly poems about bad children, gladiators, shark teeth, ridiculous grown-ups and much more, by poets such as Roger McGough, Steve Turner and Brian Patten. Illustrated throughout, this attractive collection is perfect for dipping into, whenever you feel a dull moment coming on!

Love that tingly feeling when you're scared? Want to give your sister or brother the shivers? This book is packed full of scary poems to enjoy alone (do you dare?), or to read to others. Ghosts, haunted houses, spiders, dracula, monsters and many more make an appearance in different spooky ways — by poets such as Charles Causley, Richard Edwards, Eric Finney, and Philip Gross. Get those goosebumps going!