How Do You Spell Kids Booke?
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Kids booke? With an e? You'll
see the spellyng has a flawe
But it hearkens back to spellinge
from a time that came before
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Lacking spellynge rules, you'd
spelle a werde in any way you chose
Just as long as you could recognyse
the meaning, I suppose
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But it's not about the spelling
here, it's more about a time
When you could write a word a dozen
ways, but always make it rhyme
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It was the sound that gave the meaning
and the spelling gave the sound
And the music in the language
could emerge and run around
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We adore the sound of rhyming
and the rhythm of the voice
All the stories here at Kids Booke
offer both of them, by choice
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It's a little bit archaic
it's a little bit passé
It's like getting on a plane to
Rome, and landing in Marseilles
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Finding unexpected patterns
you appreciate or don't
Only knowing by exploring
if you will or if you won't
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If you stay, you'll find the stories
here are quite like nothing else
In the stories you've encountered
yet for little boys and gelss
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Limericks
The section of Kidsbooke devoted
To limericks new and oft-quoted,
Has a a singular book
Full of verses (do look)
That are suited to children, just floated.
Kids Booke Stories
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We began the page with spelling
which you noticed wasn't right
In a bid to draw attention
to a set of books that might
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Delight the eyes and ears of children
and their parents, if they chime
Not a mass production, certainly,
but stories set in rhyme
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And fully illustrated, coloured
with an artist's loving care
And the like of these you'll
likely not discover anywhere
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Because their style is olde worlde
in its rhythm and its rhyme
Yet the stories are adventures
of invention, space and time
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And science fiction made for children,
things that can't, but if they could ...
And imagination running
fully riot, as it should
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Without an eye to dire consequence
or lessons to expose
Let us pose a simple "What if this?"
and follow where it goes
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Sascha Martin Kids Bookes
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Sascha Martin's an inventor
with a reputation made
By disastrous invention
that he's frequently displayed
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So the teachers look at Sascha
as they might regard a box
Whose label clearly says "Pandora"
with a plenitude of locks
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These are just his first inventions
others wait within the Crookes
and bends of Sascha's mind. Do
follow on, and read about his Bookes ...
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