Like friendship, kindness, perseverance, standing up for oneself and others, doing the right thing and more. By the end of the collection… I was in floods of tears, and convinced that this is the most accomplished and emotionally significant group of new poems I have read in a very long time. Thirty years on, and now homeless, Daniel is drawn back to Sherry and Leslie’s home to seek the comfort and security he felt as a child.

From the first stanza, where Wonder Woman’s breasts are described as ‘twin spaniels off the leash’ we know we’re in for a high-stakes, high energy ride in this extraordinary collection.Rachel Elliott is the author of Whispers Through a Megaphone , longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2016, and Do Not Feed the Bear . There were characters from the central family in the story that essentially dropped off from the narrative, as if forgotten about by both their family and the author. I rarely talk so negatively about a book but would be interested to hear from anyone who has read this as I’m sure there’s many that enjoyed it more than I did.

Before she joined Penguin Young Readers, Margaret worked at HarperCollins Children’s Books for 17 years where she acquired Fancy Nancy, Pete the Cat, The Bad Seed series, and Hoda Kotb’s bestselling picture books I’ve Loved You Since Forever and You Are My Happy. But one day something happens that rocks their world and family secrets come to light that affect them all, however not all of them are telling the truth.This volume, just like the others in the series, has a well-written text and fantastic, somewhat unexpected illustrations which illuminate the place of this animal in our world a book that also considers it important to deal with the role of a bird as a controversial plastic garden ornament testifies to the intellectual breadth of these volumes . Although I have some negative feelings about the book, I did love it's construction, I did love the writing style and I wanted to love the characters, it was there, it just wasn't enough. Whether it's a flamingo, a penguin or a hippo knocking at the door, Anna is ready to welcome them all - with the help of her trusty sidekicks T Bear the doorman, Squeak the friendly elevator mouse, and Lemmy the lemur receptionist . Every now and then a book stands out as not just amazing but absolutely exceptional and Flamingo is that book. Set in 2018 and the 80s, it’s a song for the broken-hearted and the big-hearted, and is, ultimately, a novel grown from gratitude, and a book full of wild hope.