Read Me and Laugh
Gaby Morgan

This is a collection of funny poems from a wide range of poets from Spike Milligan to Valerie Bloom, and Lewis Carroll to Michael Rosen. With a title like ‘Read Me and Laugh’, you won’t be able to resist dipping into it for a giggle!

Gaby Morgan
Read Me and Laugh

Gaby Morgan is the Editorial Director of the Macmillan Children’s Books poetry and non fiction list. She studied French at University College London and has worked in publishing since graduating. Gaby has always been a compiler - she collected quotes, lyrics and poems in her teens and still enjoys making mixed CDs. This love of collecting makes choosing poems for anthologies an absolute joy.

She has edited a number of best-selling anthologies, including Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year, Fairy Poems, which was shortlisted for the 2006 CLPE Poetry Award, and Jingle Bells: Poems for Christmas.

Gaby lives in Hampshire with her husband Grant, son Jude, daughter Evie, and cats Cosmo and Angel.

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"Running

Above the tap it said

‘Run a long time

To get hot water.’

So I ran round the room for a really long time

But I didn’t get any hot water.

Michael Rosen

Cabbage

The cabbage is a funny veg.

All crisp, and green, and brainy.

I sometimes wear one on my head

When it’s cold and rainy.

Roger McGough"

Extract taken from Read Me and Laugh, selected by Gaby Morgan published by Macmillan