Pip
Tony Mitton, Illustrated by Peter Bailey
Published by Scholastic
112pp, Poetry, 0-439-98165-4, £5.99
'Pip has fine accessible poems for children although I can do without the twee moments - poems about matchbox monsters, tiny elephants and dinosaurs and so on. The poetry I hear gets into the verse in more straightforward things, eg in poems like "Listening in Bed", "Insect", and "Pip". I like the way, in such poems as these particularly, Mitton's sometimes overly anticipatable rhythms get nudged about in response to the subject.'
Reviewed in BfK No. 136 (September 2002) by ()
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