Picture a Poem by Gina Douthwaite
Introducing children to the possibilties of poetry, Gina Douthwaite's poems leap, dance, creep and sweep their way across the pages in a visual display created by innovative typography. Normous Norman, Thin Tim, Sidney the Kidney are some of the characters and objects whose shapes are created by the text of their poems. There are also somersaulting poems, rocket launching poems, mountain-climbing poems and poems that surprise.