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    Wise Up! Wise Down!: Poems by John Agard and JonArno Lawson

    John Agard, JonArno Lawson

    Funny, thought-provoking and bursting with curiosity, Wise Up! Wise Down! is a lively conversation between two internationally renowned poets, illustrated by treasured artist Satoshi Kitamura.

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    When Creature Met Creature

    John Agard

    Creature-of-No-Words lives a happy life on his own, but one day he gets a feeling like "the chill touch of ice," and nothing can lift his sadness.

    Just then Creature-of-Words…

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    The Day The Numbers Spoke

    John Agard

    Celebrate the wonders of science, identity and the natural world with this bumper illustrated poetry collection from the award-winning poet John Agard, author of Half-caste - perfect for children aged…

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    John Agard’s Windrush Child

    John Agard

    A beautiful poetic and visual delight.

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    John Agard’s Windrush Child

    John Agard

    A beautiful poetic and visual delight Joseph Coelho

    A BEAUTIFULLY EVOCATIVE STORY OF A CHILD’S JOURNEY TO ENGLAND ON BOARD EMPIRE WINDRUSH, FROM AN INTERNATIONALLY CELEBRATED, MULTI-AWARD-WINNING POET AND AN…

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    Laughter is an Egg

    John Agard

    Laughter is an egg with a crick-crack face that can hide in the heart of the human race. Tummy tickling, rib-cracking and even wee-yourself laughs can all be found in…

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    Playing the Ghost of Maimonides

    John Agard

    Agard puts on the mask of medieval Jewish rabbi Moses Maimonides (from Moorish Spain) in provocative poems that resonate with the current climate of extremism.

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    Border Zone

    John Agard

    John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. His ninth Bloodaxe collection, Border…

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    Half-Caste and Other Poems

    John Agard

    The tensions brought about by differences of race and culture are at the heart of this powerful and entertaining collection by one of Britain’s most exciting and original poets and…

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    Clever Backbone

    John Agard

    John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry over the years with his mischievous, satirical fables. This book plays havoc with biology and makes a monkey out of…

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    Travel Light Travel Dark

    John Agard

    Guyana’s word-magician casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters, bringing a mythic dimension to the present.

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    Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and other stories

    JOHN AGARD

    John Agard’s first collection for adults reveals hidden truths that subtly change our view of who we are and where we come from.

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    The Coming of the Little Green Man

    John Agard

    The popular Caribbean-British poet John Agard brings his trickster wit to a world of play and parable in which the Little Green Man stands for all pesky outsiders, in poems…

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    Ten Poems About Tea

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    Books Make Good Pets

    John Agard

    An uplifting and funny celebration of the magic of books by John Agard, winner of the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry.

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    Windrush Child: The Tale of a Caribbean Child Who Faced a New Horizon

    John Agard

    With one last hug, Windrush chid waves goodbye to his Caribbean home and sets sail across the ocean to Britain. In this powerful picture book, full of hope and promise…

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    Coyote’s Soundbite: A Poem for Our Planet

    John Agard

    Excitement spreads like bushfire through the jungle. Earth-goddesses are planning a conference! From Australia to Antarctica, the Amazon to Africa, goddesses will debate the burning environmental issues of our times…and…

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    Hello H2O

    John Agard

    From water-vapour to robots and outer-space to water, this highly original collection from John Agard, winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, explores everything exciting about science. Delighting in…

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    Einstein, The Girl Who Hated Maths

    John Agard

    Marvellous maths poems from the best-selling author and illustrator of such classics as WE ANIMALS WOULD LIKE A WORD WITH YOU and POINTS OF VIEW WITH PROFESSOR PEEKABOO.

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    The Rainmaker Danced

    John Agard

    A wonderful new anthology of poems by winner of the Queens Medal and the Eleanor Farjeon Award, 2016

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    My Name Is Book

    John Agard

    My name is Book and I’ll tell you the story of my life. Non-fiction like you’ve never read it before!

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    Books Make Good Pets

    John Agard

    An uplifting and funny celebration of the magic of books by John Agard, winner of the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry.

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    When Creature Met Creature

    John Agard

    A powerful picture book about communicating emotions and relating to fellow creatures, from an award-winning duo.

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    Shona, Word Detective

    John Agard

    A warm and charming tale of diversity, language, and the shared cultures that make-up modern life.

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    All Sorts to Make a World

    John Agard

    Comedy and charm abound in this quirky story about people trapped on the London Underground together. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 7+

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    Going Batty

    John Agard

    A warm, charming and ever-so-slightly batty celebration of family love, inspiring teachers and the great characters who make all our lives more interesting. Featuring the same family as 2014’s All…

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    Libro: Una Autobiografa

    John Agard

    My name is Book and I’ll tell you the story of my life. Nonfiction like you’ve never read it before! Quirky and humorous, part poetry, part reflection, this is the…

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    Follow that Word

    John Agard

    The father of performance poetry, John Agard, brings you a collection of riotously funny poems. Follow that Word is a celebration of imagination and demonstrates the true diversity of language.

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    The Rainmaker Danced

    John Agard

    A brand-new anthology of poems by winner of the Queens Medal and the Eleanor Farjeon Award, John Agard

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    Come All You Little Persons

    John Agard

    A tender, moving and joyous story from one of United Kingdom’s premier poets, John Agard.

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    Alternative Anthem: Selected Poems

    John Agard

    Includes poetry from We Brits that gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. This book also includes…

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    Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776

    John Greville Agard Pocock

    In this collection of essays, a group of distinguished American and British historians explores the relations between the American Revolution and its predecessors, the Puritan Revolution of 1641 and the…

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    Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776

    John Greville Agard Pocock

    In this collection of essays, a group of distinguished American and British historians explores the relations between the American Revolution and its predecessors, the Puritan Revolution of 1641 and the…

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    The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

    John Greville Agard Pocock

    A study of the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness of the ideal of the republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. This work suggests that…

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    Tiger Dead! Tiger Dead! Stories from the Caribbean: Band 13/Topaz

    Grace Nichols,John Agard,Satoshi Kitamura

    Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level

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    Twinkle, Twinkle, Firefly: Band 08/Purple

    John Agard,Grace Nichols,Satoshi Kitamura

    A wonderful anthology of poetry by award winning poets John Agard and Grace Nichols, brought to life with beautiful illustrations by Satoshi Kitamura.

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    Full Moon Night in Silk Cotton Tree Village: A Collection of Caribbean Folk Tales: Band 15/Emerald

    John Agard,Grace Nichols

    Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Learn all about the strange goings on in Cotton Tree Village with these four traditional tales from…

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    Flooding & Climate Change: Sectorial Impacts & Adaptation Strategies for the Caribbean Region

    This book covers many aspects of global climate change and flooding within the Caribbean region and examines the impacts of these on the agricultural sector in the Caribbean, on coastal…

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    Wheel and Come Again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry

    Opal Palmer Adisa,John Agard,Lillian Allen,Edward Baugh (University of the West Indies)

    A dance hall session in poetry, Wheel and Come Again takes readers into the heart of reggae, into the seduction of the drum and bass. The poems mix all the…

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