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selected poems from The tree house
James K. Baxter ; illustrations by Kieran Rynhart.
30 unnumbered pages
colour illustrations.
Contents: The grasshopper -- The tree house -- Rain -- Swing, swing, swing -- Twenty little engines -- Andy Dandy -- Jack Frost -- If I were the King of Sweden -- The snowman -- The growly bear --The gorse fire -- The seagull -- The shepherd -- Eel fishing -- The ships -- The big black whale -- Spring-heeled Jack -- Old man Jeremy -- The skindiver -- The old owl.
Summary: Baxter wrote his first poem at the age of seven. Seagull seagull is a new selection from The tree house. He wrote these playful and funny poems for his class when he was a primary school teacher at Epuni High School, Lower Hutt. (Back cover)