Best Selling Books by Roger McGough

These poems contain Roger McGough''s own spin on innocence and experience. Poems about his docker father and his new daughter; poems about how, in his dreams, he gave the idea of "Hey Jude" to McCartney and advised Dylan to go electric; and poems about sad music and the sad eclipses of everyday life. 2002.

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company''s 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane''s vision of good books for all''. published in 1967 and a bestseller ever since. Over the years, McGough has continued to delight readers with his short, playful and comic verses, and in The State of Poetry he displays the range and the wit that continues to make him one of the leading lights of British poetry.

Crocodile says goodbye to the jungle and heads for the bright lights of London to find freedom and adventure. But despite the famous sights, city life on a stone-cold street begins to pall... Will crocodile tears become real tears for friends, family and home? A fantastic picture book for reading aloud by poetry legend Roger McGough and award-winning animator Greg McLeod.

A new sparkling and witty version by Roger McGough of Molière''s comedy published as a programme text to accompany the premiere at the Liverpool Everyman on 9 May 2008. Tartuffe is a beacon of piety and in the home of wealthy merchant Orgon he has his feet firmly under the table. But all is not as it seems and as Orgon becomes more enraptured with his new companion the whole city is chattering. Is he a friend, a fraud, a miracle or a hypocrite? The family smell a rat and amidst the frills and frivolity of seventeenth century society they hatch a cunning plan to outwit the wily deceiver before he brings their house crashing down. Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664 but the play was banned following its first production in Paris; it wasn''t until 1669 that it was revived and became one of his greatest successes.

Kites are not cuddly and you can''t play football with them, but when the neglected kite comes to belong to Caitlin, it is appreciated for the very first time. Seriously ill, confined to bed, Caitlin dreams of the day she will get better and fly with the kite high over the mountains of the world. Caitlin doesn''t get better, but her final journey with the kite leads them both to a place without pain and suffering where they can be free. This exceptional book allows children to approach the concept of death at the level for which each individual is ready.

In Babylon, the people feel the need to bring food for the mythical beast that lived in the temple. The wise Daniel says that the beast is just a statue and doesn''t need offerings. But this only serves to infuriate the priests, who give him one night to prove the truth of his claims.

A verse adaptation of Molière''s final play, The Hypochondriac is a scathingly funny lampoon on both hypochondria and the ''quack'' medical profession. This version by Liverpool poet Roger McGough was first produced in 2009.

Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

A small boy who dreams of running away to the circus is surprised to wake up the next morning and find the circus has run away to join him, overrunning the house with performers, including clowns who delight in throwing custard pies at him. Suggested level: junior.