Joy has spent her life with her grandmother in Jamaica, steeped in Jamaican culture, sunshine and traditions. Until the day her dream comes true: Joy's mother, who moved to England when Joy was a baby, writes to say that she's ready for her daughter to come and join her. Joy can hardly contain her excitement. But London in December is a shock. It's cold and dark and unfriendly. Even so, it's nothing to the shock that awaits when she goes to live with her mother...

Surprising Joy

Valerie Bloom

Teen & Young Adult

Pan Childrens

A collection of Valerie Bloom's distinctively lyrical poems.

Whoop An' Shout! : Poems by Valerie Bloom

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Macmillan Children`s Books

Fruits

A brand-new collection of Valerie Bloom's distinctively lyrical poems, which sparkle with exuberance and wit. Bursting with Carnival Queens, lyrebirds and Whooping Boys, this is a glorious collection. Prepare to be dazzled! Praise for Valerie Bloom: `She is a mighty performer of her poems on stage, but she is first and foremost a writer, and her poems on the page are a tribute to her skill. 'Enjoy the Party' she says [in Let Me Touch the Sky]. I did.' Roger McGough, Carousel `Valerie Bloom has that magic touch which . . . can make the strange familiar and the familiar strange.' John Mole, TES 'Let Me Touch the Sky contains some performance poems of rare and exceptional quality . . . If we had a multicultural Children's Laureate, I would nominate her.' Peter Hollindale, Signal

Whoop An' Shout!

In this collection of children's poems by performance poet Valerie Bloom, her subjects range from the philosophical to taking sandwiches to school and being afraid of ghosts. The poems use a mixture of standard English and dialect.

The World Is Sweet

BLOOMSBURY

Tender Fingers in a Clenched Fist

Sissay, Lemn

Poetry

Bogle L'Ouverture Press

Touch Me! Tell Me!

Bogle-l'Ouverture Press Ltd

Ackee Breadfruit, Callaloo: An Edible Alphabet

The Tribe

<p>Maruka is different to the other girls; she likes to hunt and fish deep in the forest, even though it`s dangerous. But she should have stayed in the village the day the Kalinas tribe came and stole her mother. She would have stopped them. Two years later, Maruka sees giant white sails rearing up on the horizon. She is sure of a Kalinas attack but a deadlier enemy wades ashore and plants a flag on the beach. Her tribe welcome the pale-skinned men but are repaid with treachery and forced to mine the white man’s God – gold. Maruka knows that the tribes have one option: they must put aside their differences and defeat their common enemy. And if the tribes unite, Maruka might even find her mother again...</p>

<p>This beautiful collection of poetry celebrates the brilliant thing that is feelings. It explores all the different emotions we experience and how different situations bring these emotions to the surface.\nFrom feelings of uncontainable excitement and inexplicable sadness to the electricity which surges from anger and pride, the poems in this anthology perfectly put into words all the different things we feel in our hearts.\nVivid and stirring artwork from an array of talented artists brings breathtaking poetry from a range of voices to life.</p>

My Heart is a Poem

Naomi Shihab Nye

Nikki Grimes

Coral Rumble

JOSEPH COELHO

Kate Wakeling

John Agard

Laura Mucha

Debjani Chatterjee

Ken Nesbitt

Janet Wong

Mandy Coe

Karl Nova

Jay Hulme

Ruth Awolola

Caterpillar Books Ltd.

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Books by Valerie Bloom