The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Kathryn Dove

Kathryn writes fiction and poetry for children. She enjoys the alchemy of poetry and seeing how a dash of imagination can transform ordinary life into something surprising and wonderful. She has lived in London and spent a summer working in a small village on the west coast of Scotland. Kathryn now lives with her family in Auckland, New Zealand.

Poems by Kathryn include:


Haiku
Pip Pop Popcorn
Salty Stars
Switching On Spring
A Promise
Jelly Song
A Sweetening of Dreams
Have You Seen My Bus Pass?
The Hill Behind My House
Graviticity
Albatross
New Year, Leap Year
Dear Santa
Paper Plane Poem
Take Off!
Albatross Dreaming
A New Year is Here! / Mānawatia a Matariki!
Little Brown Dog
Summer Holiday Bookworm
Marble Mumble
Slug
My Favourite Summer Fruit
Beach Clean Up
Cusp of Change
New School Year
Directions to the Land of the Long White Cloud Aotearoa New Zealand
Staffa
In the Southern Hemisphere
Apple Seed
Bird Bird Butterfly Bee
At Sunrise
Words are Fun!
Here is a Door