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The Noisy Classroom by Ieva Flamingo
4.0

As with any poetry book I read, there were poems in this collection I absolutely loved, and poems I wasn't as keen on.

But there were 5 specific poems that I had to mention as my favourites:

School Wants - a poem about the pressures of school attainment

To The Girl In The Wheelchair - in which a girl who uses a wheelchair is compared to a princess who is /not/ trapped by a dragon

To A Boy In The Supermarket - about a boy who dreams of the things he could buy if he had the money

I Like To Look In Windows - an observation of families through windows, the good and the bad

In The Twilight - an ode to the invisible school cleaners who work miracles every night

I'm very interested in how the translation from the original Latvian may have changed some of the poems.
And I loved the section at the back of the book that gave the reader a chance to learn some of the Latvian words from the original poems.

The illustrations are really sweet, I actually love the slightly messy sketchy feel they give.