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  • Published: 18 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241354568
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.00

Funky Chickens




Enter the crazy world of rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah!

A wonderfully irreverent collection of poetry for children and young people touching on anything from vegetables to the Queen and from sewage to the sun. There's plenty of humour as well as poems on racism, pollution and the murder of a cat.

  • Published: 18 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241354568
  • Imprint: Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $22.00

Praise for Funky Chickens

Zephaniah is the reigning king of children's poetry... He has an unselfconscious relish for language and word-play that never strays into the patronising dee-dum-dee-dum-dee-dum territory of so much of children's poetry: his are poems that bounce up from the page and demand to be read, rapped, sung and hip-hopped aloud.

Independent on Sunday

Benjamin Zephaniah's poems are short, funny and modern. This is poetry with attitude

The Times