THINKER: My Puppy Poet and Me

Won as Highly Commended in CLLiPPA Award and nominated for the 2019 Kate Greenaway Medal 2019. Thinker isnt just an average puppy. Hes a poet. So is his owner, Jace, and together they turn the world around them into verse. Theres one thing they cant share, though: Thinker isnt allowed to go to school. That is, until Pets Day. But the puppy poet finds it surprisingly hard to keep quiet... Seven-year-old Jace and his puppy Thinker are poets, putting everything they do into verse, from going to the park and philosophising to playing ball. One day theyll have the whole world figured out. For now, though, Thinker has to keep quiet in public, and he cant go to school with Jace he might recite a poem, and then Jaces friends will say hes weird. But when Pets Day comes, and Thinker is allowed into the classroom at last, he finds it harder than he expected to keep his rhyming skills a secret. Eloise Greenfields poems in Thinker dance joyfully upon the page as they inspire confidence and authenticity in readers old and young. These are poems about love, belonging, and the rewards of sharing our gifts with the world all brought to life by the delicately rich artwork of Ehsan Abdollahi. Victoria Adukwei Bulley, National Poetry Day Ambassador