{"title":"Sophie's Favourite Children's Books","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eChildren love poetry too and they shouldn't have to be stuck with the same old boring rhymes, Sophie has picked out the best of contemporary verse for your little laureates. \u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"falling-out-of-the-sky-poems-about-myths-and-legends","title":"Falling Out of the Sky: Poems About Myths and Legends","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2016 CLPE Children's Poetry Award.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An exciting collection that challenges in a way few anthologies for children do.\" - 2016 CLiPPA judges\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFalling out of the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e is a treasury of poems which retell classic myths, legends and fairytales from across the world in fun, often tongue-in-cheek ways. 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Meet a giddy comet, which skids across the sky with its tail on fire. Put a marvellous new machine in your pocket, which promises to solve all of your life’s problems. Kate Wakeling’s first book of poems for children is full of curious characters and strange situations. 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