Join in the colour and excitement of festivals with these poems. Beginning with the dancing Chinese dragon welcoming in the New Year, help celebrate different traditional and religious festivals - each with their own costumes, feasts and songs. An irreverent and humorous look at festivals through poetry which includes a range of poems that are old and new, familiar and fantastical, poems containing patterned and predictable language and ones with more challenging vocabulary.

Author Biography

Andrew Fusek Peter is an Anglo-Czech poet, storyteller, broadcaster, anthologist, author and creative writing tutor with an international reputation. He has worked in thousands of schools, libraries, arts centres and literary festivals, giving lively performances and running workshops for all ages and abilities.