Cross Rhinoceros
Listen to Jacqueline read her poem ...
If you take your pet rhinoceros
With you to the fair,
Don’t ever buy her candyflosseros -
It might stick in her hair.
That’ll make her oh, so crosseros.
I warn you … just beware!
With you to the fair,
Don’t ever buy her candyflosseros -
It might stick in her hair.
That’ll make her oh, so crosseros.
I warn you … just beware!
Picture by David Oates
About the illustrator, David Oates: David is currently a teacher living and working in Suffolk with his wife, five children and 2 dogs. He picked up his drawing pens again in 2020 after a 23 year hiatus year to focus on achieving his childhood ambition of becoming an illustrator. His first children's book 'The Imagination Thief' is both written and illustrated by David and will be published in November 2021 by Emira Press.
This poem is copyright (©) Jacqueline Shirtliff 2024
About the Writer
Jacqueline Shirtliff
Jacqueline is a poet and primary school teacher on the Isle of Man. One of her favourite things is helping children to love poetry and reading and encouraging them to be writers themselves. She lives in a rose-covered cottage near the sea and enjoys gardening, crochet, and playing the tuba and harp, but not all at the same time! You can read some of her other poems in The Caterpillar, Tyger Tyger, Northern Gravy, The Toy, and Little Thoughts Press.
