Animal Antics

Animal Antics
poems for kids, 6 to 60 years
by Colin Taylor

Wally the Wombat
(video)
The Cross Koala
(video)
The Reluctant Duckling
(text & audio)
The Disconsolate Fly
(text & audio)

Poetry with Attitude

Scotland the Knave
(video)
Never Say Die
(video)
Suffer Little Children
(text & audio)
The Good Old Days
(text & audio)

About Animal Antics

Animal Antics is a book containing 24 short poems for children, written and published by the Australian actor, Colin Taylor.

Included with each book is an audio-CD, with each poem entertainingly read by Colin.

The major theme behind the poems is "Animals, their lives and their thoughts", as seen from the following list of poem titles:

The Anxious Ant
The Self-contained Snail
The Aristocat
The Ambitious Pony
The Baby Kangaroo
The Disconsolate Fly
The Discontented Snake
The Disillusioned Ladybird
The Feminist Cow
The Friendly Cockroach
The Funny Bunny
The Kindergarten Spider

The Puzzled Pup
The Reluctant Duckling
The Sensitive Mouse
The Vain Frog
Wally the Wombat
The Well-adapted Camel
The Stylish Pig
The Frustrated Grasshopper
The Cross Koala
The Paradoxical Platypus
The Grumpy Grizzly
The Code of Skunkery

We have selected a few of poems from this list to give you a bit of a taste... The Reluctant Duckling and The Disconsolate Fly (both as text with audio), and The Cross Koala and Wally the Wombat (both as video).

If you would like more, click on the Contact/Purchase link to discover how to obtain the book and CD.