A train is a truly tremendous machine that moves on tracks over land. Through cities and forests. Pat mountains and farms. A trip by train is grand.
A car is a machine that helps us to get around. Some cars are super-speedy. They whizz across the ground!
A submarines is a boat that travels deep beneath the waves. There, all kinds of amazing things can be seen.
A bus is a large machine with wheels that move across the ground. On country lanes, roads and motorways, buses zoom around.
A boat is a marvellous machine that moves over rivers, lakes and seas. A trip bu boat is an amazing adventure with wonderful things to see.
A crane is a very clever machine. It lifts and moves heavy things like a dream. A crane lifts a load high above the ground. then it turns around and puts the load down.
A rocket is a spectacular spacecraft that blasts off and shoots through the sky. Up and up into space it goes. Off to the moon it files.
A plane is a machine that helps us travel far and wide. All around the world, planes whizz across the sky.
From beautiful lyrics to madcap waggery, from the prime suspect in a partridge killing in ancient Greece to the medieval monk's cat Pangur Bán and encompassing odes, fables, stories, limericks, songs, nursery rhymes and more, Mark Bryant has compiled a wonderfully evocative collection of writing of all kinds on cats by those who love them. There are poems from Chaucer, Baudelaire, Emily Dic…