In the traditional fairy-tale style this book looks at the themes of love and loss by following the experiences of Isis, a river girl, who falls hopelesly in love with a mortal poet. Isis begs her Father, Thames, to free her from the river. Wendy Cope is the author of "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis", "Twiddling Your Thumbs" a collection of finger rhymes for children and "Is That the New Moon" a collection of women's poetry.
This is Book 3 in the Children's poetry Series. See all Children's poetry books here.
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Wendy Cope was born in 1945, and earned a BA from Oxford (1966) and a dipolma from the Westminster College of Education (1967). After teaching for several years at various junior schools in London, she became a freelance writer and columnist. When asked about her work, Cope asserts "I dislike the term `light verse' because it is used as a way of dismiss
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