Hachette India

Poems from a Green and Blue Planet

Sabrina Mahfouz

A GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, this stunning collection of new and classic poems from around the world celebrates the diversity of life on our green and blue planet, to be shared with all the family. With new poems from Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Kate Tempest, Hollie McNish, Dean Atta, Sabrina Mahfouz and more.

Dive into this book and be swept away on a journey around our green and blue planet, from the peak of the snowiest mountaintop to the bottom of the deepest, bluest ocean. Meet the birds circling its skies, the beasts prowling its plains, and the people toiling in its fields and forests and cities... Explore all the worlds that make up our world, and hear the voices, past and present, that sing out from it. From haikus to sonnets, from rap to the Romantics, this joyous collection celebrates life in all corners of our beautiful planet.

Sabrina Mahfouz

Sabrina Mahfouz is a writer and performer raised in London and Cairo and working across multiple art forms including film TV opera dance and music. She is a Royal Society of Literature Fellow and a resident writer at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Her previous theatre work includes A History of Water in the Middle East Chef and Dry Ice. Sabrina has edited the anthologies Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life Art & Making It Happen Poems From a Green and Blue Planet and The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write and she is an essay contributor to the multi-award-winning The Good Immigrant.