Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs - Poems for Children

Drømmecykler og fodboldhunde - digte for børn

Included in the White Raven 2020 catalogue, Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs, is children's poetry at its best.

Carsten René Nielsen is an award-winning and acclaimed Danish poet, whose work is translated into several languages.

Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs - Poems for Children

Drømmecykler og fodboldhunde - digte for børn

Included in the White Raven 2020 catalogue, Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs, is children's poetry at its best.

Carsten René Nielsen is an award-winning and acclaimed Danish poet, whose work is translated into several languages.

Synopsis

Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs is a wonderful collection of poems for children, packed with unusual imagery, and with stunning illustrations by Mette Marcussen.

In the words of the White Raven committee:

Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs is a poetic gem, featuring poems illustrated with delicacy that all tell little stories – lyrical, off-beat, and melancholic narrative poems, rich in language. There are poems about adults who are as boring as shopping carts, about a cowboy who loves the ocean, or about the eponymous dogs who secretly meet at dusk to play soccer. Readers hear about horses who wear too much lipstick, or witches who snore »like a swarm of bees buzzing in and out of an elephant’s trunk«. The unconventional visual language and the astonishing ideas make Dream Bikes and Football Dogs a book that inspires readers to marvel, spin out the tales, and create their own poems; a book they will want to pick up again and again. This is children’s poetry at its best!  

Dream Bikes and Soccer Dogs - Poems for Children
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Original Language: Danish
Original Publisher: Vild Maskine
Published: December, 2019
36 pages
Category: Children's Books
Genre: Poetry
Available material: English sample, Dutch sample, Danish original.

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