Dynamic, pro-active author who runs school workshops and his Poetry Zone website to encourage children to read and write poetry. Poetry with real child appeal from a popular children's poet. Bridges the gap between nursery rhymes and more challenging poetry collections. A repeated cast of characters builds familiarity for the reader.

Roger Stevens has put together various poetry anthologies, including The Monster That Ate the Universe (Macmillan) and, for A&C Black, Let's Recycle Grandad and The Secret Life of Pants (selected for the 2007 Reading Challenge). He runs the 'Poetry Zone' website for children and leads poetry workshops for schools.