Chapters (133)
- Cover
- Title page
- A Smile
- Yes
- The Laughter Forecast
- from Pippa Passes
- The Feeling of Having a Good Day
- To See a World
- Hope on a Rope
- The Teacher’s Gift
- High Achievers
- Picking Teams
- Best Friends
- Oath of Friendship
- May You Always
- Squeezes
- Don’t
- Mother to Son
- Two People
- You Have a Body
- Three Good Things
- The Cupboard
- BOY GIRL
- Isn’t My Name Magical?
- Keeping Wicket
- My Sister
- Middle Child
- Siblings
- A Blessing
- Paintings that Move
- Heroes
- Cats
- Cat
- Charlotte’s Dog
- Tell It to the Dog
- A Meerkat Lullaby
- Weird Wildlife
- Mad Gardener’s Song
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- Mr McGuire
- Wonderful Worms
- Song of Mr Toad
- The Frog
- The Brushbaby
- The Porcupie
- Little Trotty Wagtail
- The Cuckoo
- The Eagle
- Be Like the Bird
- The Bird’s Nest
- The Hen
- Four Ducks on a Pond
- The Prayer of the Little Ducks
- I Saw a Ship a-Sailing
- Penelope’s Hats
- The Look
- Snakestanger
- The Bee’s Knees
- Bees
- Spelling Bees
- Poetry
- The Uncertainty of the Poet
- OIC
- The WOW!
- Travel
- From a Railway Carriage
- The Six Strings
- Tarantella
- This Poem . . .
- The Strawberry-Yogurt Smell of Words
- A Dictionary of Snow
- To Lalla, Reading my Verses Topsy-Turvy
- The Dictionary Bird
- Driven to Distraction
- Pencil World
- Bookish
- Just a Book?
- Today I Read a Bus Stop
- Wise One
- Apostrophe
- Comma
- Comparisons
- Back Room Boy
- A Song about Myself
- A Boy’s Song
- The Magic Pebble
- The Magic of the Brain
- I Saw a Peacock
- The Grammarian Saw a Peacock
- What is Pink?
- First Morning
- A Feather from an Angel
- The Treasures
- A Memory
- A Drop in the Ocean
- Voices of Water
- Roots
- Bulb
- from Home Thoughts from Abroad
- A Slash of Blue
- Loveliest of Trees
- The Sensation of Well-Being
- In the Tree’s Defence
- from Blueberries
- Beetroot
- Fish and Chips
- The Potatoes My Dad Cooks
- The Storm
- The Wind in a Frolic
- The Windmill
- Daybreak
- The Moon and a Cloud
- The Star
- Star
- Stars
- Comet
- Winter Morning
- February Twilight
- Night
- One Bright September Morning
- Pleasant Sounds
- Where Go the Boats?
- The Cataract of Lodore
- Empty Places
- Out in the Desert
- Contentment
- Sun is Laughing
- Changing Places
- Smile
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Praise for Roger McGough
- Also available from Macmillan
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About the Author
HAPPY POEMS
Roger McGough was born in Liverpool and received the Freedom of the City in 2001. President of the Poetry Society, he presents the popular Radio 4 programme Poetry Please, and has published more than a hundred books for both adults and children. In 2005 he received a CBE from the Queen for his services to literature.
Praise for Roger McGough
Praise for Roger McGough
‘The patron saint of poetry’ – Carol Ann Duffy
‘He is a true original and more that one generation would be much the poorer without him’ – The Times
Also available from Macmillan
Also available from Macmillan
Sensational! Poems Inspired by the Five Senses
Chosen by Roger McGough