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Hello H2O
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Hello H2O
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) John Agard
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Illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:96 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 128 |
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| Category/Genre | Poetry by individual poets |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781444917727
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| Classifications | Dewey:821 |
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| Audience | | Children / Juvenile | | Primary & Secondary Education | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Hachette Children's Group
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| Imprint |
Hodder Children's Books
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| Publication Date |
3 October 2013 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
From water-vapour to robots and outer-space to water, this highly original collection from John Agard, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, explores everything exciting about science. Delighting in the wonder and oddities physics, biology and chemistry have to offer, these poems will bring out the scientist in you!
Author Biography
John Agard was born in Guyana and emigrated to Britain in 1977. He has worked as an actor and a performer with a jazz group and spent several years with the Commonwealth Institute, travelling all over Britain giving talks, performances and workshops. He has visited literally thousands of schools. His poem 'Half-caste' is on the AQA Englsih GCSE syllabus, and every year he tours the country performing with other top poets for GCSE students. His children's poetry includes WE ANIMALS WOULD LIKE A WORD WITH YOU, POINTS OF VIEW WITH PROFESSOR PEEKABOO, LAUGHTER IS AN EGG, and COME BACK TO ME MY BOOMERANG. He lives in Sussex and is married to Grace Nichols, herself a respected Caribbean poet. They have a daughter.
Reviewsbeautifully produced...a celebration of science and poetry. * Bookfest *
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