Language of Cat

Rachel Rooney is among the most admired children's poets of our time. She worked as a teacher of special needs children while bringing up her three sons, and continues to take a close interest in the welfare of children with mental health problems. She is the author of My Life as a Goldfish (2014), A Kid In Our Class, shortlisted for the CLiPPA Children's Poetry Prize in 2019, and Hey, Girl! (2021). She lives in Brighton, East Sussex.Ellie Jenkins is a freelance illustrator. She graduated from University College Falmouth in 2010 and has illustrated a wide variety of children's books, including fairy tales, folklore story adaptations, and poetry. She is also illustrator of Rachel Rooney's second collection of poems, My Life as a Goldfish. Ellie Jenkins lives and works in Bristol, England.

"A box of delights" Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate 2009-19"Thoughtful, quirky, sensitive, amusing, edgy"  Books for Keeps"Funny, fast-paced, lyrical and thought-provoking … the poems will grow in the reader's mind with re-reading, year by year." Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, prize citation"This book is brilliant because anyone, at any age, can read and enjoy it. It would be perfect for a birthday or Christmas present, and anyone who got it would be very lucky!"  English 4-11