What is the Truth? (inbunden, eng)

Why is it
The roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawn
Wakes us so early?

A warrior king is on fire!
His armour is all crooked daggers and scimitars
And it''s shivering red-hot – with rage!

First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children''s Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry AwardThis new, illustated edition remains ''a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment'' (The School Librarian).