The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems

by Turner, Steve; Mostyn, David

• ISBN13: 9780745936406
• ISBN10: 0745936407
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-18
• Publisher: Lion Books

Summary

Best friends and animals, schooldays and secret ambitions, boring days and embarrassing momentsthese are a few of the topics featured in this collection. Also included are more serious subjects such as creation, death, and pollution.

Author Biography

STEVE TURNER is a performance poet and journalist. Author of several anthologies of adult verse, children's poetry and many rock biographies.DAVID MOSTYN is a widely published cartoonist and illustrator.

Table of Contents

I Like Words
First Word	9	(1)
I Like Words	10	(2)
Language	12	(1)
Wriggle	12	(1)
Wouldn't It Be Funny?	13	(1)
The Naming of the Animals	14	(2)
What Am I?	16	(1)
Words I Like	17	(1)
Rhythm and Rhyme
Heartbeat	18	(1)
Seasons	19	(1)
Drip Drip Drip	20	(1)
Breathing	21	(1)
Jack and Jill	22	(1)
Boring Boring Boring	23	(1)
InterCity Train	24	(2)
Like This...Like That
As Good as This	26	(1)
My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose	27	(1)
What Have You Done to the Wind?	28	(1)
Sun	29	(1)
Butterflies	30	(1)
It's Raining Cats and Dogs	31	(1)
Sitting by a Summer Pool	32	(2)
Who Was I Before I Was Born?	34	(1)
Memory and Magic
I Like the World	35	(1)
The Jumping Game	36	(2)
Old Swear Word	38	(2)
Sleepy Time	40	(1)
Spell	41	(1)
In the Beginning	42	(1)
Standing On My Head	43	(1)
Other Ways of Seeing Things
Upside Down	44	(1)
Ghosts	45	(1)
I Am the Sea	46	(2)
TV Dinner	48	(2)
The Vegetables Strike Back	50	(2)
The Final Straw	52	(2)
I'll Run Away From Home	54	(1)
Who Am I?
The Olden Days	55	(1)
God Is Still Making Up Numbers	56	(1)
Who Made the World?	57	(1)
Hard to Please	58	(1)
It Wasn't Me	59	(1)
My Dad	60	(2)
I Can't Sit Still	62	(2)
Who's a Lovely Girl?	64	(1)
Messages to the World
Who Made a Mess?	65	(1)
All We Need	66	(1)
Television News	67	(1)
I Know the Santa	68	(1)
More Sweets	69	(1)
Telling Tales
Inside My Head	70	(1)
What I Did Last Night	71	(1)
The Day I Fell Down the Toilet	72	(3)
The Death of a Fly	75	(1)
Nightmare on the Game Machine	76	(2)
My Grandparents' House	78	(3)
A Wee Poem	81	(1)
There Was an Old Woman	82	(1)
A Knees-Up With Words
The Ding-Dong Song	83	(1)
A Knees-Up With Words	84	(1)
Punch-Line	85	(1)
Week	86	(1)
Tomorrow	86	(1)
Bottoms	87	(1)
Bugler Bill	88	(1)
Putting It All Together
Strings and Things	89	(1)
The Worst School in the World	90	(2)
Lists	92	(1)
Snail	93	(1)
Fireworks	94	(1)
My Teacher	95	(1)
Nobody Likes You When You Grow Up	96