Joshua Seigal is an internationally renowned poet, performer and educator. His first book with Bloomsbury, I Don’t Like Poetry, was nominated for the Laugh Out Loud Award, an award Joshua has subsequently won twice. He is also a recipient of The People’s Book Prize, and has performed at schools and festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh Book Festival, the Cheltenham Literature Festival, and the Emirates Literature Festival. He is an Official Ambassador for National Poetry Day, and has been commissioned to write and perform for the BBC. He can normally be found running poetry workshops and performances in schools, either online or in real life. His website is www.joshuaseigal.co.uk. Chris Piascik started his career as a graphic designer at award-winning studios in the Northeast USA before accidentally becoming an illustrator. This strange transformation was the result of his daily drawing project that he started in late 2007 and, in fact, he's still posting a new drawing every day.
If ... you still think, 'I don’t like poetry,’ this might be the collection for you: Joshua Seigal’s very imaginative and wonderful collection. * The Times on I DON'T LIKE POETRY * What do you mean you don’t like poetry? This must mean you’ve not read the debut collection of poems from Joshua Seigal! * lovereading4kids.co.uk on I DON'T LIKE POETRY * Joshua Seigal is a rising star in the children’s poetry world and this new collection of his poems will be a real crowd-pleaser. * lovereading4kids.co.uk on LITTLE LEMUR LAUGHING * Joshua Seigal is definitely my new favourite poet. * Books for Keeps * Reluctant readers and poetry pros alike will find plenty to enjoy in Seigal's trademark outpouring of wit, wordplay and wackiness * Books for Topics on WELCOME TO MY CRAZY LIFE * ... this is a great collection of genuinely funny poems and they're refreshingly original for older primary kids, reflecting their lives and interests. * BookTrust on I BET I CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH * The poems are so playful, gleefully heading off in unexpected directions, and so full of surprises, that it sometimes feels that it’s only the rhythm and the rhyme that is holding them on the page. * Books for Keeps on YAPPING AWAY *