Wizardry to Wētā Verse

75 poems for 5–10 year olds Keeping you awake poems DO NOT EAT THIS CAKE poems Blustery and breezy poems Sweeping through the seasons poems Metaphors and weather verse Wizardry to wētā verse Lonely and alone poems Poems about poems poems The universe, the earth and space Stranger worlds, a greener place Turning to the next new day Sleepy lionslines that slip away

Elena de Roo is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s foremost poets for children, with her work widely published in magazines and websites, and anthologies like A Treasury of NZ poems for Children and Roar, Squeak, Purr: a New Zealand Treasury of Animal Poems. She has also written children’s books that have been published in the UK, Australia and Aotearoa, and she’s been awarded three Storylines Notable Book Awards. In 2010 Elena was awarded the Todd New Writer’s Bursary to write a collection of poems and Wizardry and Wētā Verse is the long-awaited result. Elena is a co-founder of The Poets XYZ, whose mission is to encourage more poetry to be written for children and to set up a network of children’s poets.

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