Non-Fiction

Australian Writer & Illustrator

Lorraine Marwood, illustrated by Amy Daoud

Guinea Pig Town and Other Animal Poems

Walker Books 2013           $16.95pb 144 pages

ISBN 978 1 9220 7742 4 

Lorraine Marwood lives on a dairy farm in rural Victoria, Australia and has spent much time working on adult literacy, ESL and encouraging children to read  - and to write poetry. This collection is full of great images (possum deciles on our tin roof/ a grey cow with a moist nose and a yellow tag munching hay like it is a sherbet lolly and pink roses are kitten’s noses – whiskers like fine fish bone lines) to get children going on creating their own.

Year 2 up/ Age 6 up