The children in my local school who asked me to write poems for them (when I hadn't written any before), also asked me to make this website for them and add voice recordings to my poems because:  'We love to hear poetry read,' and 'if we hear it when we are going to bed, it makes us sleepy and helps us to sleep.'  In fact I, for certain, have found the same thing for I've put some of these poems onto CDs.  Books are fine, but there is so much that can be added to a website, including, of course, my little chats with you at the foot of the poems and the fact that children in 188 countries of the world get these poems and for many, English is a second language and they need to hear a native English speaker pronouncing the words clearly for them.

                                                                          Josie