A brilliant, thoughtful anthology of poems full of hope, selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell.
Chris Riddell OBE, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He has enjoyed great acclaim for his books for children. His books have won a number of major prizes, including the 2001, 2004 and 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award in 2013. His previous work for Macmillan includes the bestselling Ottoline books, The Emperor of Absurdia, and, with Paul Stewart, Muddle Earth and the Scavenger series. Chris lives in Brighton with his family.
Contains enough humour, pathos and passion to enthral any bookish
teenager.
*Daily Mail*
Designed to "galvanize, uplift and inspire" in our challenging
times
*Bookseller*
[A] lovely collection for the turbulent world we live in.
*Indybest*
He’s also a life-long lover of poetry and in Poems to Live Your
Life By he shows how poetry gives meaning to our lives, from
childhood to old age. His collection is aimed at young readers but
people of all ages will appreciate the insightfulness of poems
*Independent on Poems to Live Your Life By*
Illustrator and author Chris Riddell has created a rich anthology
of poems from the past to the present all of which have a special
meaning for him.
*Julia Eccleshare, Love Reading, on Poems to Live Your
Life By*
And after a turbulent year, every child should find some bedtime
solace in Poems to Save the World With, an anthology of galvanizing
poems, selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell. Anyone who baulks
at reading poetry aloud should turn to the refreshingly brief entry
by Robert Louis Stevenson: “The world is so full of a number of
things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings
*Daily Telegraph*
Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his favourite classic
and modern poems to uplift and inspire you to make the world a
better place. Be inspired and take action with this insightful and
beautiful collection
*WRD Magazine*
Great poetry has the power to galvanise, inspire and soothe – this
anthology does it all
*Indybest*
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