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When the Bell Goes
Poems by Neal Zetter, illustrated by Emily Ford
(Troika Books)
£7.99
It might be that you’re keen to marry your teacher, or aware you are the teacher’s pet, with your hand permanently raised. It might be that ‘your nose is blocked/ Closed and clogged and locked’ or you’ve a friend, Tummy Ache is is ‘always there’ for ‘you, getting you out of ‘maths and history’ or ‘washing up’.
Then again, you might be a Legomaniac, with ‘houses, castles, mansions, towers’ or red bricks, green bricks, white bricks blue bricks’. If so, you’d be unlikely to be so bothered about the day your class was scheduled to use the school Jungle Gym.
Neal Zetter turns his poetry pen to remembering, observing and recalling school days, childhood days, from Bathtime, when his ‘big toes stick up through the taps’ to recalling ‘watching in amazement/ As Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’.
What’s more, he remembers playtimes and school times, the start of a school day to its end. Thereafter, he remembers teachers, from the ‘shouty’ ones to those he sought to marry.
These are poems to be read alone, laughed over, shared aloud and recited. Furthermore, Emily Ford’s expressive illustrations make these poems pertinent and active.
Bookwagon recommends When the Bell Goes to readers at home, and school, especially.
When the Bell Goes
Poems by Neal Zetter, illustrated by Emily Ford
(Troika Books)
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