There's one thing - one very important thing - that Molly and Dad both know about polar bears that live on the Arctic ice, crocodiles with their whip crack tails, dinosaurs whose jaws could swallow a school. Young children should love joining in their bedtime game to see if they can guess what the one thing is.

Tell Me One Thing, Dad

Pow, Tom

Walker Childrens Hardbacks

When asked by their young, various animal parents describe the world from their own perspective--as does a father to his young son--in a lyrical and visually stunning meditation on the earth and its creatures.

Who Is the World For?

Children's Books

Animals

Candlewick

Celebrate the love all parents have for their babies — from dinosaurs to Grimalkens to real-life dads. "Dad, tell me, if you can, one thing you know about a dinosaur." "Was that a dadosaur you said?" Dad asks. Molly and Dad both know one thing- one very important thing — about polar bears that live on the Arctic ice, crocodiles with whip-crack tails, even dinosaurs whose jaws could swallow a school. Could the same thing be true of a Grimalken that dances on the green edge of town, or a certain dad whose neck is ticklish? Young children will be eager to join in Molly and Dad’s lyrical, lighthearted bedtime game. Guess what that one thing is!

Growing Up & Facts of Life

This is a recollection of the author's travels in Peru. The book presents a view of the country's malaise - a juxtaposition of extreme corruption, blighted idealism and resigned fatalism - and an appreciation of its landscapes and people. Tom Pow is the author of Rough Sea and The Moth Trap.

In the Palace of Serpents: An Experience of Peru

Travel

South America

Canongate Books Ltd.

When preparing for his big party, Callum becomes so involved with the Scottish theme, that he starts to eat, talk, and dress like a Scotsman.

Callum's Big Day

iynx publishing

Landscapes: A sequence of poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Cacafuego Press

Bradley, Victor, and Floris live with wild dogs on the dark, forgotten edge of a devastated city. Haunted by memories and abandoned by society, they have learned to survive on their own. But when Floris is kidnapped the others must venture into the unknown to save their friend. It is a dangerous journey--violent gangs walk the streets, and corrupt warlords viciously guard their territories. But it is also a journey of discovery...

The Pack

Teen & Young Adult

Roaring Brook Press

One day, Daisy's grandmother takes her to an overgrown garden. Many, many years before other children had played in that garden - Sixteen String Jack and Dare Devil Dick were shipwrecked there; and often they fought pirates side by side till the sun went down. But it was only Sixteen String Jack whose fame would never die, for he grew up to become J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan. In this poignant and beautifully illustrated story, award winning writer Tom Pow and Sendak Fellow Ian Andrew search out the magic that, in time, would produce the most famous character in children's literature.

Sixteen String Jack and the Garden of Adventure

Historical Fiction

Birlinn

Since the publication of his first collection, "Rough Seas", in 1987, Tom Pow has been recognised as one of Scotland's foremost contemporary poets; lyrical, celebratory and sensitive to the world around him. "In The Becoming, New and Selected Poems" draws on Pow's work over the last two decades, from "Rough Seas" (1987) to his latest book, "Dear Alice - Narratives of Madness" (2008), including poems from "Sparks!", his poetic correspondence with Diana Hendry, and "Transfusion", his praise poem for Muhammad Ali and Nelson Mandela. The collection charts his ongoing poetical concerns: an exploration of landscape from the rainforest to the Arctic; an interest in how history and narrative shape our understanding of the present; and, in the new poems, a maturing engagement with those large themes that lie at the heart of Pow's poetry, namely love and death. "In The Becoming" offers a timely reading of one of the finest poets of his generation.

In the Becoming: Selected and New Poems

Tom Pow's beautiful, powerful poems examine the remarkable life of Thomas Watling. Watling was born in Dumfries in September 1762 and raised by a long-suffering maiden aunt. Convicted of forging Bank of Scotland one-guinea notes he was sentenced to fourteen years in the recently founded colony of Botany Bay in Australia. The first professional artist to arrive in the colony, Watling was seconded to its Surgeon General (and amateur naturalist) John White. His pioneer paintings of birds, animals and the landscape became some of the principal records of the earliest days of Australia. He was eventually pardoned, on 5 April 1797, and left Australia, eventually returning home to Dumfries. He died there, most likely in 1814.

A Wild Adventure

Polygon

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Tell Me One Thing, Dad

Who Is the World For?

Tell Me One Thing, Dad

In the Palace of Serpents: An Experience of Peru

Callum's Big Day

Landscapes: A sequence of poems

The Pack

Sixteen String Jack and the Garden of Adventure

In the Becoming: Selected and New Poems

A Wild Adventure