"Why does mum always iron a crease in my jeans?"

An outstanding collection of poems from all over the world, chosen for their power to make children think.

With work from some of our best-known poets including Ted Hughes, Roger McGough and Carol Ann Duffy (to name but a few), these are poems to provoke, poems with attitude and poems that will make you ask those big questions in life...like why does mum always iron a crease in my jeans?