Please Mrs Butler: The timeless school poetry collection

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It is a great introduction to poetry for much younger children, and it will also allow older children to be exposed to an unconventional style of poetry which will have them to explore numerous ways to create their own poem.

Emma graduated from East Carolina University with a BA in English, minor in Creative Writing, BFA in Fine Art, and BA in Art Histories. Although some of the content is pretty dated, having been written in 1983, the comedy contained within still manages to produce laughter in the classroom. The poems would be a good starting point to getting children keen on the idea of writing poetry and the fact that poems do not always need to rhyme.With a fresh new look for a brand new generation of school children to take to its heart, every teacher, parent and child should have a copy. Allan Ahlberg's collection of witty and comical poems about the trials and tribulations of being at school is superb. Please Mrs Butler is a fabulous collection of funny little poems centering on the school experience. For example, likes one and two of stanza two as well as the structures of all the odd-numbered stanzas. They cover all the relevant issues including doing projects, lost scissors, making excuses, and empty fish tanks.

Here are ten of the finest poems about school and schooldays, teachers and pupils, classrooms and chalkboards. There are many types of poetry used throughout the book, mainly written to sound like children speaking, and also full of humour.

Reading again as an adult I notice poems such as Slow -reader with a greater sense of empathy and the poems take me on more of a reflective journey. The fact that they need to ask their teacher what to do suggests that they’re quite young but old enough to know that everyone is supposed to do their own work.