What a great idea for a poetry book - a collection of poems, each about a student (or adult) in a class at school.

As with any poetry anthology, of course I didn't like all of them, but the originality, ideas, and range or representation this book managed to cover had me sold very quickly.

From your classic joker, daydreamer, perfectionist or shy kid, all the way through to some deeper characters: the tough kid with an even tougher home life, a deaf child who teaches her friends to sign, a child who makes up a new fatastical reason every time someone asks why he uses a wheelchair, and the girl who isn't around anymore.

And I loved the little introduction that specified:
'Of course, in real life we are much more complicated...we're likely to be a mixture of several of them'.

I would love to use this with KS2 kids, maybe alongside my last poetry review ( Take Off Your Brave ) to get children writing their own book about their class - either with an autobiographical poem, or maybe giving everyone another child to write about (focusing more on positivity of course).