Rob Walton
Rob Walton is a writer, performer and teacher from Scunthorpe who lives in Whitley Bay, where he writes poetry and fiction for children and adults. His poetry for children has been published by The Toy Press, Tyger Tyger, Parakeet and The Dirigible Balloon, and features in anthologies from Macmillan, Bloomsbury, The Emma Press and others. His collection of thirty very short stories, Please Don’t Read the Footnotes Please, is published by The Emma Press.
Poems by Rob include:
Some Summers
Chocolate
Florrie’s Christmas Wish
O Tannenbaum!
Monday’s child
The all-new rhyming alphabet
Things I think our teacher said on the school trip
This Laptop
Half
Oh Christmas Three
The Flying Diving Mouse
Flight Commander
Gardener
Boxing Day
What Santa Saw at our House
Memories
Adventure
Family Road Trip
The Great Big Water Sports Adventure
Quantity Surveying
Don't Come In!
World Muck Day
One of the Dogs I Don’t Have
Humpty Dumpty
The shark who didn’t get the memo worries about the mobile dentist
Ladder and Scarf
Laila Asks
Boxing Clever