Dr Rosemary Milne is a Developmental Psychologist who has been a
teacher of preschool and primary school children, and an educator
of teachers and parents. She has written radio and television
scripts for ABC preschool and school programmes, and has been a
writer and presenter for FKA Children's Services, a resource centre
which provides language support for kindergartens and childcare
centres with children from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Andrew McLean has taught painting, drawing and art, but is now a
full-time painter and illustrator of children's books. Many of the
books he has illustrated have received awards from the Children's
Book Council of Australia. Andrew and his wife, Janet, have also
created many popular and award-winning picture books together,
including Hector and Maggie, Dog Tales and Josh.
Full of action and alliteration, the poems will be fun to read aloud...children will probably thoroughly enjoy shouting the refrain at Humpty Dumpty: 'So get down off that wall before you fall, you Silly Egg!'...this will be a useful addition to the poetry shelf, or could just be added to the kinderbox, for pre-school and infant children. School Librarian
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