Hello on this beautiful sunny day at the beginning of March! Spring is sprouting in the garden and its beginning to get colourful with daffodils and primroses, and the peeping tops of bluebells. I've seen some gorgeous yellow Brimstone butterflies, and the birds are singing at the tops of their voices. Hurrah for Spring! In February I posted some poems relating to National Year of Reading and also WORLD BOOK DAY which is happening this Thursday 5th March. What a wonderful day and year to celebrate reading! Here are a few more poems to celebrate the joy of reading. Don't forget that libraries are full of books that you can take home and read for free! Authors can excite your imagination, and transport you to so many different places and events. Have a wonderful day exploring books, stories and poems. Please feel free to share these poems in your school.

Hello on this beautiful sunny day at the beginning of March! Spring is sprouting in the garden and its beginning to get colourful with daffodils and primroses, and the peeping tops of bluebells. I’ve seen some gorgeous yellow Brimstone butterflies, and the birds are singing at the tops of their voices. Hurrah for Spring! In February I posted some poems relating to National Year of Reading and also WORLD BOOK DAY which is happening this Thursday 5th March. What a wonderful day and year to celebrate reading! Here are a few more poems to celebrate the joy of reading. Don’t forget that libraries are full of books that you can take home and read for free! Authors can excite your imagination, and transport you to so many different places and events. Have a wonderful day exploring books, stories and poems. Please feel free to share these poems in your school.

Posted on 3 March 2026

I AM

I have devoured pages like a gannet

I have skimmed pages like a stone on a lake

I have pondered pages like a sage

I have adored pages like a hero

I have returned to pages like a dream

I have longed for pages like a craving

I have hunted pages like a tiger

I have treasured pages like a memory.

I AM A READER

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WORLD BOOK DAY?

(from my Poetry Collection: A Classroom of Stars)

Who shall I go as?

What will I be?

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Maybe a Tiger

who’s hungry for tea?

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Harry Potter? Hermione?

The Cat in the Hat?

***

A Snail, or a Whale?

Or Ratine the rat?

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Stickman? A Gruffalo?

The Witch from the West?

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A Wild Thing? A Pig?

Oh, what will be best?

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Maybe Jane Austen?

Will Shakespeare would do.

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Michael Morpurgo?

Or Winnie the Pooh?

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Peter Rabbit, or Alice.

Toy Story – which toy?

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A bear? A caterpillar?

Billionaire Boy.

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Who shall I go as?

Please help me decide.

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I just cannot choose

the book lover cried.

***

World Book Day is driving me

right round the bend!

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By the time I’ve decided

World Book Day will end!

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AND HERE’S AN OUT OF THIS WORLD IDEA…

WORD SPACE

When twilight darkens up the day,

and brings us night time fun.

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When evening light comes out to play

as the moon outshines the sun.

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When the sky above is gleaming

down with planets, moon and stars,

***

I wonder, does a Martian see

my bedroom light from Mars?

***

I wonder, can they see the book

I’m reading in my bed?

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Perhaps they nod and say,

now that’s a book I’ve already read?

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And if that’s true, I wonder do

words go to space and float?

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To be captured in a space net

from an interstellar boat?

Words from all the cosmos,

not just words from earth –

***

words from every life form

that exists in the universe.

***

I wonder, does a space scribe

pen never-ending tales?

***

Does a universal bookshop

tour the cosmos for its sales?

***

I wish I was on a mission,

sent up to have a look

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because, I think the universe

could write the perfect book.

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AND HERE IS A POEM ABOUT THE JOY OF READING

THE WORLD IN MY CHAIR

(from my poetry collection: A Classroom of Stars)

Whenever I can

I curl up in my chair,

Then the magic begins.

I can go anywhere.

***

I don’t need a ticket

A train or a car,

My journey is different

So near, yet so far.

***

I don’t have to travel

I just have to look

At the words and the pages,

Inside my book.

***

The author will take me

Wherever they go.

Through pages and chapters,

the magic will grow.

***

I might be a tiger

Afloat in a boat,

Or a knight, from a castle,

Crossing a moat.

***

I might be an agent

Solving big crimes.

Or a King or a Queen

From far away times.

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I can go anywhere,

I can be anyone,

That’s why reading books

Is SO MUCH FUN!

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WHY BOOKS ARE GREAT

In reading corner

books await,

their pages are rustling –

don’t hesitate –

***

open them up

and inside you’ll find,

stories and poems

to fill up your mind.

***

Words and pictures

to thrill and enthral.

So many different

subjects for all.

***

Stories and fact books.

History or crime.

Tales of the future.

Tales of past times.

***

Books overflow

with imagination.

The ideas and dreams

of an author’s creation.

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So, go on, be curious,

take a book from the shelf.

Ask someone to read it,

or read it yourself.

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