This is a handy volume to read aloud on the approach to Halloween, or to use as the basis of a larger topic: a collection of poems with magic as their theme. Most are contemporary, but not all: Shakespeare, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Lewis Carroll and Alfred Lord Tennyson sit alongside Benjamin Zephaniah, A.F Harrold and Paul Cookson himself, for example. The illustrations by Eilidh Muldoon would provide inspiration for pupils’ own drawings and the basis for an eye-catching display. Keep it on your desk to share in odd moments in the school day.
Elizabeth Broad
Illustrated by Eilidh Muldoon
Bloomsbury ISBN 9781472958150 £12.99
