Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of John Rice's poems, which are packed with lambs who have laptops, cats who chat and, of course, giants! There is also some wise advice about wolves and instructions on how to build a castle in the woods.
This is a glorious collection of John Rice's wonderfully varied and always brilliant verse.
A minute to midnight
A minute to midnight
and all is still
except for the things that are moving.
Like, for example,
rivers, clouds, leaves, flags,
creaky windmills, lungs, birds' feathers,
digital clocks, grass, the wind,
non-sleeping animals (especially wolves),
planet Earth, the moon, satellites in space,
toenails (well they grow, don't they),
videos that are set to record
programmes in the middle of the night,
washing lines,
mobiles above babies' cots ––
and babies' eyelids, they always flicker.
- ISBN10 0330414992
- ISBN13 9780330414999
- Publish Date 6 August 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 June 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 96
- Language English