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Hello H2O

John Agard, Author

Satoshi Kitamura, Illustrator

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Publication date: October 3, 2013

Category: Poetry

ISBN: 9781444917727

From water-vapour to robots and outer-space to water, this highly original collection from John Agard, winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, explores everything exciting about science. Delighting in the wonder and oddities physics, biology and chemistry have to offer, these poems will bring out the scientist in you!

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beautifully produced...a celebration of science and poetry.

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John Agard

John Agard was born in Guyana and emigrated to Britain in 1977. He has worked as an actor and a performer with a jazz group and spent several years with the Commonwealth Institute, travelling all over Britain giving talks, performances and workshops. He has visited literally thousands of schools. His poem ‘Half-caste’ is on the AQA English GCSE syllabus, and every year he tours the country performing with other top poets for GCSE students. He lives in Sussex and is married to Grace Nichols, herself a respected Caribbean poet.