Look out for a lobster on the phone; watch Owl, silent ghost-flyer; glimpse a sprinting hot-dog. Check your pants for snakes, play football indoors and then… go looking for dragons. But make sure you keep your eye on Dragon Cat!

You’ll find surprises and adventures, riddles and word games plus lyrical, thoughtful poems in this outstanding collection from a hugely admired poet.

"The much-anticipated new solo collection from poet and educator Corbett. An outstanding collection, packed with riddles, surreal surprises and thoughtful poems. With his huge international following and and reputation among teachers, this collection will be the talk of the literacy world."

"Pie Corbett’s highly accessible and thought-provoking new collection blends strange encounters, questions, riddles and playful imaginings. There are acrostics, kennings and performance pieces, with plenty to engage KS1 and KS2 classes reading aloud. There are also many opportunities to spark creative writing....

Highly recommended, we can see Dragon Cat becoming a staple poetry text in primary schools."

"Perfect for exploring and enjoying at home or at school, Dragon Cat is a simply brilliant poetry collection. There are so many poems here which could be used as models to inspire children - or adults."

"..this is a bouncy, fun book full of funny observations and illustrations that feel quirky and original. …There are poems here that are fun to read aloud, could be used for call and response, helpful for school projects or just enjoyable to read. This would be a perfect poetry book for teachers looking for something to dip into at the end of the day for the last five minutes before home time, or in the morning for a quick poem read aloud at registration."

"The main point of poetry.. is to keep our eyes and emotions clear and sharp, to show us how language, sounds made by air in the mouth, can open doors to the infinite mystery of life.

Relatively few poets, I think, grasp this completely and manage to produce great work as a result. Pie Corbett is one of them and this wonderful collection should be high on the list of books-to-be-bought of English teachers everywhere."

Pie Corbett is a poet and educator whose lifetime mission has been to encourage and grow literacy in children, finding and developing ways to help them towards the joy of stories and poems, and to write for themselves. He is famous in schools as the creator of the 'Talk For Writing' approach, and his many books include the Jumpstart titles on storymaking, games and activities. He lives in Gloucestershire.

Tom Morgan-Jones has illustrated John Dougherty's Zooming the Zoo and Dinosaurs and Dinner Ladies for Otter-Barry Books. A professional illustrator, author, events artist and hand-letterist, he lives in Edinburgh.