Let's play!
Subtitle: poems about sports and games from around the world
By: edited by Debjani Chatterjee & Brian D'Arcy ; illustrated by Shirin Adl
Edition: [Paperback edition].
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
ISBN-13: 9781847805843; 9781847803702
Subjects: Games; Children's poetry, English; Poetry; Juvenile poetry; Sports
Description: Collects thirty-seven poems celebrating such sports and games as football, baseball, judo, table tennis, netball, cycling, chess, and scrabble.
Notes: "Janetta Otter-Barry books."

Originally published: 2013.
Table of contents: title: Vitai lampada -- (extract) / -- Sir Henry Newbolt; title: The new Gavaskar  -- Asit Maitra; title: The swing  -- Robert Louis Stevenson; title: A skipping game  -- Bashabi Fraser; title: A-tisket a-tasket  -- Anonymous; title: Tic tac toe  -- Anonymous; title: I wouldn't go to missie  -- Anonymous; title: Scrabble  -- Rob Walton; title: Chess haiku  -- Debjani Chatterjee; title: Shaap-ludo  -- Susmita Bhattacharya; title: Computer game  -- Charles Thomson; title: Swimming lesson  -- Denny Davis; title: Olympic diver in a holiday pool  -- Mandy Coe; title: Shot put  -- Ann Atkinson; title: Pole vault  -- River Wolton; title: The world's fastest bicycle  -- Kenn Nesbitt; title: 4 x 100m  -- Rob Walton; title: When my friend Anita runs  -- Grace Nichols; title: Toboggan  -- Colin West; title: Toboggan  -- David Whitehead; title: Hockey  -- Ryan Banks; title: The skater boys  -- Wes Magee; title: Boxing poem  -- Muhammad Ali and Drew Bundini Brown; title: On the outside of a judoka  -- Anonymous; title: My puppy punched me in the eye  -- Kenn Nesbitt; title: Tennis doubles trouble  -- Greg Pincus; title: Let's play ping-pong  -- Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D'Arcy; title: Netball  -- Ann Bonner; title: Take me out to the ball game  -- Jack Norworth; title: Baseball  -- Ryan Banks; title: Basketball  -- Grace Butcher; title: Kite flying  -- Debjani Chatterjee; title: My pony  -- Brian D'Arcy; title: Right royal (extract)  -- John Masefield; title: Surfing  -- Sasha Walker/Mills; title: The football team  -- Roger Stevens; title: Alumnus football -- (extract) / -- Grantland Rice; title: About the games and sports.