The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me: A Book of Insect Poems (The Emma Press Children's Poetry Books) - Softcover

Edited By Isabel Galleymore And Fran Long

 
9781912915118: The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me: A Book of Insect Poems (The Emma Press Children's Poetry Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1912915111 ISBN 13: 9781912915118
Publisher: The Emma Press, 2020

Synopsis

Can you imagine a world without bees? Have you ever thought about how dung beetles are awesome recyclers? Insects pollinate, recycle and are an important food source for many animals they're tiny but mighty superheroes of the animal kingdom. Insect Poems is an anthology of wild and wonderful children's poems which will educate and excite youngsters about the wonders of insects!

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About the Authors

Fran Long is a primary science specialist teacher and fellow of the Primary Science Teaching Trust. She was HLF Education Officer on the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's HOPE for the Future project.

Isabel Galleymore is an award-winning writer and lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Her poems, which explore ecology and our human place within it, have been published in a number of magazines in the UK and US, and her first collection, Significant Other, was published by Carcanet in 2019 and won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2020.

In 2016, Isabel’s curiosity for animals took her to the Amazon rainforest where she spent a month as a poet- in-residence and encountered howler monkeys, caiman, pink-toed tarantulas and lots and lots of mosquitos. Her pamphlet, Cyanic Pollens, published by Guillemot Press in 2020 is based on her experiences in the jungle.



Emma Dai'an Wright is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher and illustrator. She worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up The Emma Press with the support of the Prince's Trust. She has since published over 500 writers across more than 130 books, including poetry anthologies for adults and children, short stories, and translations. She lives in Birmingham.

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Publisher
The Emma Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1912915111
ISBN 13 
9781912915118
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
96