Dear ugly sisters - Laura Mucha

Tonight I fancy a flight,

so I shuffle my short feathers

and jump...

Take off on a night flight, have a monster's lunch, listen to birdsong, shout out the Apatosaurus rap and check out Alexander Fleming's petri dish. The read the note Cinderella left for her Ugly Sisters!

A spectacular debut collection from an exciting new poet who is also a brilliant performer of her work in schools and festivals.

Laura Mucha is an award-winning poet, author and speaker. She has won two international poetry prizes (the Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2016 and the inaugural YorkMix Poems for Children 2019),and her effervescent and thought-provoking poems have been published around the world.She also writes for adults, and her debut bookLove Factually/We Need to Talk About Lovewas published in 2019.Dear Ugly Sistersis her first book for children. Laura lives with her husbandand son in London. You can read and listen to more of her work atlauramucha.com. @lauramucha

"An effervescent debut collection."

"I predict this book will give laughter, thoughts, questions, comfort - and sow the seeds of a love for poetry in any young person who reads it or has it read to them. A must for every library, home and school. BIG recommendation."

"What a brilliant debut collection of poetry..."

"An outstanding new voice in children's poetry with her debut collection of varied, effervescent and thought-provoking poems."

"Fresh and accessible, there are shape poems, haiku, poems constructed for the sheer joy of hearing their words said aloud...a wonderful book."

"A delight - lively, original and covering an eclectic range of subjects."

"A really lovely addition to a class poetry collection."

"A stunningly original collection of accessible poems from the witty and wry to more thought-provoking and wise."

"I enjoyed the variety of subjects and perceptive interpretations, the humour and the originality. This book is a must for every school library and classroom collection, with much to enjoy for children reading the poems to themselves or for reading aloud."

"So clever and so funny."

"This excellent debut has something for everyone. Fresh, original and full of a delightful mixture of the fun and the serious, this will have children aged 6-12 both laughing and reflecting. Rich in language and rhythm...themes include nature, science, space plus emotions and feelings and it will also be a really useful book for supporting empathy."

"This is the sort of book that erupts between the covers and spills out into the surrounding air in a way that only poetry has the capacity to do. A book to be read aloud to children of all ages and one which young readers will be enthralled by. These are visual poems both in their poetic structure and the brilliantly bold illustrations by Tania Rex."

"Poems with a message or a moral can be a turn-off, but Laura manages to deal with them with a lightness of touch which makes them all the more effective...a lot to enjoy and provoke thought in pupils from a wide age-range."

"Witty and unconventional."