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Hello

I'm going to give you another great website to visit today.

It's the Children's Poetry Archive.  It's a unique website where you can hear poets (some still very much alive and kicking and others who are distinctly dead!) reading their own poems - and if anyone knows how a poem is meant to be read it's the poet themselves!

You can hear Spike Milligan reciting "One the Ning Nang Nong" (ok, so I'm biased - I've already told you how much I love that poem).  Roald Dahl reads his version of "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" in his own unique style.  There's even a recording of William Butler Yeats reading "The Lake Isle of Innisfree".  More new recordings are being made all the time (of the living poets, obviously) so you might like to bookmark the site for the future.

I hope you enjoy it

Happy listening

Suzanne