John Agard
John Agard is one of the most popular and highly-regarded poets writing in Britain today. His poem Half-Caste is on the GCSE syllabus and he performs at Poetry Live events throughout the country. His adult collection, We Brits, was shortlisted for the 2007 British Book Awards Decibel Writer of the Year Award. His book for teens, The Young Inferno, won the CLPE Poetry Prize Award in 2009, was nominated for both the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards in 2010 and shortlisted for the 2010 UKLA Award. Goldilocks on CCTV, his poetry collection for 11 plus, inspired by fairy tales, is on the 2012 CLPE Award shortlist. John lives in Lewes, Sussex, with his wife the poet Grace Nichols.
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Third in the terrific Butter-Finger series about a cricket-loving, calypso-writing West Indian boy visiting London for the first time. Category: Fiction 7+Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
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Award-winning story: calypso-writer and cricket-lover Riccardo must think of a way to help his team. Category: Fiction 7+Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
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Poor Goldilocks, caught on camera breaking into a house of suburban grizzlies... Category: Fiction 10+Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
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It is Carnival Week and Riccardo Small must somehow take part in his two favourite events - the Calypso and the Cricket. Category: Fiction 7+Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
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Follow the rhyme and rhythm of a baby's day in this very first book of poetry. Category: Early Literacy, Poetry & rhymePublisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
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John Agard fires Dante's poem into the 21st century in a red-hot retelling, with wicked artwork from Satoshi Kitamura. Category: Fiction 7+, Poetry & rhymePublisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
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John Agard fires Dante's poem into the 21st century in a red-hot retelling, with wicked artwork from Satoshi Kitamura. Category: Fiction 7+, Poetry & rhymePublisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
