Imaginative, clever and often humorous, this beautifully illustrated poetry collection by Valerie Bloom is inspired by the strange and wonderful creatures of the natural world.
• Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.
• Text type: A poetry book
• Curriculum links: Citizenship

Jaws and Claws and Things with Wings: Band 14/Ruby (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

Bloom, Valerie

Literature & Fiction

Collins Educational

Poems inspired by the world all around us.
• Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.
• Text type—a poetry book.
• Pages 30 and 31 tie many of the poems together in a reader response page that shows the river’s journey to the sea, and can be used as a prompt for speaking and listening activities.
• Curriculum links—Geography: "Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather."

Collins Big Cat ― Mighty Mountains, Swirling Seas: Lime/Band 11

Collins

Collins Big Cat – Christopher Brown: Accidental Detective: Band 15/Emerald

Education & Teaching

This is the first time Valerie Bloom's poems have been collected together in one volume. Valerie's poems have been published in over 70 anthologies.

Valerie Bloom: Selected Poems for Children

Pan Books, Ltd.

The Tribe

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...

Teen & Young Adult

Macmillan, UK

How much fruit do you think one small girl can manage to eat in one day? In the case of the narrator of this counting poem, the answer is "a lot"! Count from one to ten and learn the names of some Caribbean fruits, and find out what happens after eating a cocktail of mangoes, bananas and more.

Fruits

Trans-Atlantic Pubns

Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem

Macmillan Caribbean

This is the first time Valerie Bloom's poems have been collected together in one volume. Valerie's poems have been published in over 70 anthologies.

Selected Valerie Bloom

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

Navigator Poetry: Year 3 Brown Level Snake's Pyjamas (NAVIGATOR POETRY & PLAYS)

Reference

RIGBY

Navigator Poetry: Year 5 Blue Level A Poison Tree (NAVIGATOR POETRY & PLAYS)

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