If I Could Eat the Stars
Edited by
Sally MurphyRebecca M. Newman
Illustrated by
Briony Stewart
Paperback
$17.99 GST
Defend a goal with Sally Murphy, rocket through space with Amber Moffat or get radioactive with Cristy Burne. Walk the dog with Deb Fitzpatrick and play with your food with James Foley. Then … Barlay! (Watch out!) with Cheryl Kickett-Tucker.
With stellar illustrations by Briony Stewart and featuring shape poems, haiku, cinquain and free verse … these are poems to tickle your funny bone, make your belly rumble and keep you up at night.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
‘Humorous poems, evocative poems of the ocean, shape poems, rhyming poems, free verse, haiku, tiny poems and long poems – this has it all, and I gobbled it up like a bag of lollies.’ Sue Warren, Just So Stories
Sally Murphy
Sally Murphy is an author, poet and educator – sometimes doing all three things at the same time. She loves playing with words, and encouraging other people to do the same, and loves poetry so much that she completed a doctorate focusing on children’s poetry. When she isn’t writing, reading or talking about writing and […]
Rebecca M. Newman
Rebecca M. Newman writes poetry for children and flash fiction for adults. Her work can be found in Australian and international anthologies, magazines and popping out of the short-story dispenser in Perth’s Raine Square. After contributing to all those anthologies she thought it was time to edit her own, so she joined forces with Sally […]
Briony Stewart
Born in Perth, Western Australia, Briony Stewart is an award-winning author and illustrator of 25 books for children, including the Kumiko and the Dragon series. Briony’s passion for children’s literature stems from her belief in its profound social and cultural impact and accessibility across multigenerational audiences. Briony has lectured on children’s literature at Curtin University and conducts […]You may also like…
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