A riotous celebration of words and a modern take on cautionary tales ¿ featuring advice on parrots, gravy, mathematics, castles (bouncy), spiders, vegetables (various), breakfast, cakes, and removing ducks from soup.<i>Advice comes in many shapes. </i><i>Poems come in many shapes. </i><i>And so, it follows, poems of advice come in many shapes too. </i><i>Sometimes they look you in the eye and say, ¿Do this! Don¿t do that!¿ </i><i>Sometimes they sidle up beside you and whisper, ¿Have you ever thought about </i>¿ <i>?¿</i><i>Not everything in this book is necessarily </i>good<i> advice, and not all of it is </i>sensible <i>advice. (But if you take the </i>bad <i>or </i>un-sensible <i>advice and </i>don¿t <i>follow it, then it may become useful advice in its own way.)</i>Filled with colour illustrations and packed with silly rhymes, witty wordplay and thought-provoking story poems, this collection will delight children of all ages.