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Shortlisted for the 2022 CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award)
The CLiPPA judges said: Cloud Soup whirls its readers deep into the play of the imagination so effortlessly that we barely notice how much we are learning about the craft, the thrilling possibilities, of poetry.
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Cloud Soup Poems for Children Synopsis
Bake a weird cake, join the School for Ghouls, and mind you don't step on the wardrobe monkeys!
Anything is possible in the world of Cloud Soup, an endlessly delightful and breathlessly imaginative collection of poems by Kate Wakeling.
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About Kate Wakeling
Kate Wakeling grew up in Yorkshire and Birmingham. Her first collection of children's poems, Moon Juice, won the CLiPPA Prize in 2017 and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
Her second, Cloud Soup, was a Book of the Month in the Guardian and the Scotsman and shortlisted for the 2022 CLiPPA.
Kate has performed her poems at Shakespeare's Globe, Southbank Centre and the Cheltenham Literature Festival among others, and she loves running workshops in primary schools.
Kate also writes for adults and a pamphlet of her poetry, The Rainbow Faults, is published by The Rialto. She lives in Oxford.
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