CANDY HAS A CAT CALLED JAZZZ

Candy has a cat called Jazzz.
He sleeps every afternoon.
But as he sleeps he has a dream
that jellyfish are flying round the room.
The jellyfish smile all the while,
as they sing Ragtime and Charleston to Jazzz.
But when Jazz joins in
he makes such a din
it sounds like fingernails sliding down glass.

Candy can't stand the noise any more
and sticks the goldfish bowl over his head.
If Jazzz hadn't already eaten them,
the goldfish would all be dead.
Then Candy has to lip-read
while Jazzz explains his dream.
He tells her the jellyfish were strawberry flavour
and they taste much better with cream.

CANDY AND JAZZZ

"A lot of poems for children look and sound the same: these poems don't. Dave Ward has created a memorable and original pair of characters in Candy and her cat Jazzz. Nightmares, daydreams, wordplays and strange stories fill this book like they fill a child's world."
IAN McMILLAN

"Dave Ward makes good wild music with his somersaulting words."
ADRIAN MITCHELL

"Thought-provoking, satirical and imaginative... a good starting point for classroom discussion, a stimulus for imaginative writing, and it will read aloud extremely well."
Carol Wooley 'SCHOOL LIBRARIAN'

"The surreal and the whimsical come together to provide a collection of free-flowing verse where eccentricity and exuberence play a very large part."
Robert Dunbar 'NATE NEWS'