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Help me find this poetry book!

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AnguaUberwaldIronfoundersson · 13/02/2019 21:02

I’m clutching at straws here as my info is vague but if anyone can help I will love you forever!

I left primary school on the mid 90’s and I remember a book of poetry in the library that I loved that my parents later bought for me. It had many poems and different sections so limericks were in the back section. It was about 1.5” to 2” thick.

Some poems I remember from the book include:

First Day at School (A million billion willion miles from home, waiting for the bell to go... to go where)

One about eating potato whetethedad burns his mouth (when mummy eats potato she blows and blows)

One about a couple arguing about squeezing the toothpaste and leaving the cap off

One about a cat hated by the writer and being squashed in a door - I remember I didn’t like this poem

Lots of limericks at the back

I can’t remember much else!

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DaisyDando · 13/02/2019 21:07

Hello. Was it The Works, selected by Paul Cookson?

AnguaUberwaldIronfoundersson · 13/02/2019 21:23

I got all excited then but it isn’t Sad

Thank you for trying though.

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Hedgehogblues · 13/02/2019 21:26

I don't know the book but that first poem is by Roger Mcgough if it's any help

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emsmum79 · 13/02/2019 21:30

The one about the cat is definitely A Case of Murder by Vernon Scannell

emsmum79 · 13/02/2019 21:31

Potato poem - Hot Food by Michael Rosen

littlecloudling · 13/02/2019 21:32

Did it have a green cover?

UselessTrees · 13/02/2019 21:33

Apparently the Roger McGough one is in the New Oxford Book of Children's Verse.

littlecloudling · 13/02/2019 21:37

Is it The Rattlebag?

bookworm14 · 13/02/2019 21:37

God, I’d forgotten that cat poem. It haunted me for years.

IndigoSpritz · 13/02/2019 22:06

Peacock Pie ?

AnguaUberwaldIronfoundersson · 13/02/2019 22:09

OMG I think @UselessTrees has it!

I fucking love you forever Flowers Gin Grin

Thank you all... and that cat poem was horrid wasn’t it!

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AnguaUberwaldIronfoundersson · 13/02/2019 22:12

Fuck me I googled the cat poem. Why did I do that???

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UselessTrees · 13/02/2019 22:18
Grin
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