Official World Book Day £1 book
Poems are meant to be read... OUT LOUD!
Discover funny poems, silly poems, animal poems, spooky poems and poems to make you think. Set them all free with the power of your voice!
Bestselling duo Joseph Coelho and Daniel Gray Barnett have created this book pf poems especially for World Book Day 2025.
This is Book 1 in the Poems to Perform Series. See all Poems to Perform books here.
Joseph Coelho is a London-born poet and children's author. His poems have been published in several anthologies including Green Glass Beads, edited by Jacqueline Wilson. Joseph has been a guest poet on CBeebies 'Rhyme Rocket' where he was beamed up from 'The Rhyme Rock' to perform his Bug Poem and has featured alongside Michael Ros
More about Joseph CoelhoDaniel Gray-Barnett is an illustrator based in Sydney, Australia. Self-taught, he studied Medical Science at the University of Sydney before swapping his microscope for pencils when he realised illustration had a much lower patient mortality rate.
His illustrations have been commissioned by clients such as The New York Times, Sydney Opera House, The Boston