Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: Tadpoles

bhs_tadpolesIn 1998 The British Haiku Society invited every school in Britain and Northern Ireland to send poems written by their students for their consideration, so they might judge how well their Haiku Teaching Kits were doing. The result was this charming volume (1999).

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.


My orange cat
brought me a present
A broken bird.
     — Claire Andrade (age 6)


Twelve o’clock
green goo and brown mush —
glad I have packed lunch.
     — Paul Sunman (11)


Newsagent’s nightmare —
magazines being read
but not being bought.
     — Jonathan Hubble (10)


My varnished toenails
glitter like midnight stars
hidden in dark blue shoes.
     — Samantha Brown (11)


people on the beach
a woman in the deep sea
laughing and talking
     — Robert Teagle (10)


As it waddles along the ice floor
snow falls
on the penguin
     — Louise Hale (7)

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