Aardvark Day

Victoria Gatehouse (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2026
The Emma Press (Verlag)
978-1-915628-57-2 (ISBN)

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A children's poetry debut about the world's weird and wonderful plants and animals.

What can we learn from dragonflies, aardvarks, elephants, weeds and peat? Take a stroll through the natural world with Victoria Gatehouse and let’s find out together. From frogs with superpowers to otters with pockets, Aardvark Day is full of poems that shine a light on the fascinating lives of creatures and wildlife – and it’s all true!

As a zoologist and nature lover, Gatehouse shares her passion for quirky creatures and fascinating plants in her debut children’s collection.

Beautifully illustrated with organic-feeling, lively line drawings by Kate Lucy Foster, and accompanied by factual notes alongside the poems and poem-writing prompts at the end for budding writers.

Vicky Gatehouse is an awardwinning poet and children’s writer, based in Yorkshire. She originally trained as a zoologist and loves to write about animals and nature. Vicky’s poems for children have appeared in Tyger Tyger, The Toy, Little Thoughts Press, Northern Gravy, and various Pan Macmillan anthologies. She was Highly Commended for the Caterpillar Prize, 2025. A pamphlet of Vicky’s poetry for adults, The Mechanics of Love, published by Smith | Doorstop, was selected as a ‘Laureate’s Choice’ by Carol Ann Duffy in 2019, and her debut adult’s collection, The Hawthorn Bride was published by Indigo Dreams in 2024.

Poem for a Pebble
The Tree and Me
Creaturely Cacophony
Fairy Armadillo
A Rockpool is...
Aardvark Day
Beluga Song
Octopus Skin
How to Be a Dragonfly
Sloth on Sports Day
Dog vs Cat
The Butterfly Leaves
The Footprints of Elephants
Planet Earth in Reverse
Planet Earth In Reverse (mirror poem)
My Litter-Picker
A Weed in Need
Interview with a Leaf Sheep Sea Slug
Baby Rays
Jelly Alarm!
The Smallest Bird in the World
White Egret and Black Rhino
Poem for a Tear-Drinking Moth
Truly Strange Mushroom Names
I Have a Liking for Lichen Because
Bee Purple
Bamboo Stew
Poem for Peat
Which Frog Superpower Would You Choose?
A Lizard Has Two Modes
Hope is a Hedgerow
Advice from the Minibeasts
Otter Pockets
Write your own poems!
Acknowledgements
About the author
About the illustrator

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.5.2026
Reihe/Serie	The Emma Press Children's Poetry Books
Illustrationen	Kate Lucy Foster
Zusatzinfo	28 black line drawings; 28 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Winnersh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	123 x 184 mm
Gewicht	81 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Gedichte / Lieder
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Tiere / Pflanzen / Natur
ISBN-10	1-915628-57-1 / 1915628571
ISBN-13	978-1-915628-57-2 / 9781915628572
Zustand	Neuware