There are 190 pages in this book. This book was published 1988 by Cambridge University Press .

Stephen Barker studied Fine Art at University and since then has worked as an illustrator and painter of murals. This is his first children's book.

This book has the following chapters: Why teach poetry?; getting and sharing information; creating a positive climate; reading poetry - quietly; talk; the sense of sound; drama; poetry and the visual; writing poetry; towards artifact. Appendices: poems that work; poetry workshops.