Stars in Jars (16 page)

into bun trays, with or without punctuation.

It manages this all by itself.

Many of these poems were published in the collections
Now You See Me, Now You …
(Rabbit Hole Publications, 2002),
I Don't Want an Avocado for an Uncle
(Rabbit Hole Publications, 2006) and
The Humpback's Wail
(Rabbit Hole Publications, 2010).

‘Sky High' was animated for the BBC CBeebies TV programmes
Poetry Pie
(2009) and
Rhyme Rocket
(2012)

‘Files Not Found on a Computer' and ‘My Cousin' were published in Issue 3 of
The Scrumbler
, 2010

‘Gales of Laughter' was published in the Wenlock Poetry Festival Anthology 2012, and performed by The Archers actress Carole Boyd at the festival anthology launch event.

‘Files Not Found on a Computer' was also published in
A First Poetry Book
(Macmillan, 2012) edited by Gaby Morgan and Pie Corbett.

‘The Solar Powered Fairy' and ‘I Can't Fix Everything' are featured poems on The Scrumbler 2013 website (
www.thescrumbler.com
).

‘Rain in Nice' was published in
Lyrical Beats
(Rhythm & Muse, 2012) edited by Alison Hill

Chrissie Gittins was born in Lancashire and lives in Forest Hill, South London. Her children's poems have been widely anthologized, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and animated for CBeebies. Chrissie won the Belmont Poetry Prize for children's poems in 2002. Her first children's collection
Now You See Me, Now You …
(Rabbit Hole, 2002) was shortlisted for the inaugural CLPE Poetry Award in 2003; republished in 2009, it was selected as a Poetry Book Society Choice for the Children's Poetry Bookshelf. Her second children's poetry collection
I Don't Want an Avocado for an Uncle
(Rabbit Hole, 2006) was shortlisted for the CLPE Poetry Award 2007 and was a PBS Choice for the Children's Poetry Bookshelf. Her third children's collection
The Humpback's Wail
appeared in 2010 and was also a PBS Choice for the Children's Poetry Bookshelf. In 2012 Chrissie made an hour's recording of her children's poetry for the Poetry Archive.

www.chrissiegittins.co.uk

on Twitter:
@Armandii

‘Magic, pure and simple.'

Sue Arnold, The Guardian

‘For gentle but often surreal language, little people should sit cross-legged on the carpet with a copy of Chrissie Gittins's latest poetry collection. As a poet who regularly visits schools, award-winning Gittins knows how to help children let their imaginations wander'.

Helen Brown, Telegraph

‘Chrissie Gittins knows just what words can do: she makes them dance, sing, sit still for a moment and then leap across the page with joy!'

Ian McMillan

‘… a lot of ripe good ones'

John Hegley

‘Poet Chrissie Gittins has a brilliant sense of humour and her quirkiness gallops across every page of this most original collection which is stuffed with daft moments and some serious ones too.'

Fiona Waters, CLPE Poetry Award

This electronic edition published in February 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing

This collection copyright © 2014 A & C Black
Text copyright © 2014 Chrissie Gittins
Illustrations copyright © 2014 Calef Brown

First published 2014 by A & C Black,
an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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The right of Chrissie Gittins and Calef Brown to be identified as the author and illustrator of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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eISBN: 978-1-4081-9694-6

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