About this book: Oxford Reading Tree Second Little Book of Poetry is an ideal introduction for 6-7 year olds to a range of poetic styles. It contains: 1. A variety of poems with familiar settings; 2. poems with predictable and patterned rhyming language that makes the poems easy to remember; 3. The poems are by significant children's poets; 4. It contains humorous poems using language play; 5. There are poems with a regular, repetitive structure that can be used as models for children's own writing. Illustrations are by Jessica Thomson; and the poems have been chosen by John Foster. POEMS INCLUDED ARE: The Crocodile is Coming by June Crebbin; Roger the Dog by Ted Hughes; The Corn Scratch Kwa Kwa Hen and the Fox by Julie Holder; I am the Rain by Grace Nichols; The Rainbow by Iain Crichton-Smith; Magic Horse by John Foster; The Snowman by Gillian Clarke; What is Red? by Mary O'Neill; Happy Birthday Card by Rony Robinson; Ways of the Week by John Kitching; Calender of Clothes by Moira Andrew; Giant Tale by Judith Nicholls; If I Could Only Take Home A Snowflake by John Agard