Poems for Children

  • The Squirrel in Town (Blackie, 1988)
  • The Dragon on the Wall (Blackie, 1989)
  • The Poem Box (Blackie, 1991)

Barney and Fred

Fancy eating your bed

Like the guinea pigs Barney and Fred

Who nibble away

Wood shavings and hay.

I should never feel

Like making my house a meal

And gnawing the wood

To do my teeth good.

I never met anyone yet

Who eat the floor and carpet

Except, as I said, Barney and Fred

His children’s poems were also featured in A Very First Poetry Book by John Foster.