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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Book List in Order: 22 titles








  • Caribbean renditions of nursery rhymes apply the lilting, musical beats of the region to familiar favorites and are accompanied by colorful scratchboard illustrations that highlight such images as Mother Goose playing the marimba....





  • All the fun of a baby's day, from "wakey light, wakey light, creeping through window" till "time to sleep tight" is captured in this wonderful collection of poems from the acclaimed poet and children's author John Agard. Bold, colorful illustrations ...



  • Can our hoodie-clad hero make it through the nine circles of Hell and back again? Will he find love with his soul mate, Beatrice? In this red-hot retelling of Dante’s Inferno, readers discover the city of Dis, where everybody disses everybody; meet...








  • From water-vapour to robots and outer-space to water, this highly original collection from John Agard, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, explores everything exciting about science. Delighting in the wonder and oddities physics, biology and...




  • "There she was on the news, Miss Goody Two-Shoes, Caught on CCTV." Poor Goldilocks, caught on camera breaking into a house of suburban grizzlies. Inspired by traditional fairy tales but with contemporary, streetwise characters, this book shows childr...





  • Build your child''s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelLearn all about the strange goings on in Cotton Tree Village with these four traditional tales from the Caribbean, beautifully told here by award-winning authors, John Agard ...



  • A tender, moving and joyous story that celebrates diversity Come little bird person, come little bee person, come little tree person - little persons from all over the world join together to celebrate the dance of life and love in this stunni...



  • Shona has always loved words and for many years she has written down any strange word she finds to create her very own thesaurus! When her and her classmates learn that some languages are dying out, Miss Bates tasks them with becoming top-class word ...



  • Excitement spreads like bush through the jungle. Earth-goddesses are planning a conference! From Australia to Antarctica, the Amazon to Africa, goddesses will debate the burning environmental issues of our times...and bushy-tailed, smooth-talking Coy...










  •  In the title story, Inspector Dreadlock Holmes and his sidekick Rudeyard Fly are sent for by the Criminal Investigation Department of Middleham-by-Sea - a little town known for tea shops, pet shops, and florists - in short, a rustic r...



  • Internationally acclaimed poet John Agard recalls the journey made by the thousands of Caribbean children and their families who traveled to Britain between 1948 and 1971 as part of the Windrush generation. With one last hug, Windrush child says good...



  • Creature-of-No-Words lives a happy life on his own, but one day he gets a feeling like "the chill touch of ice," and nothing can lift his sadness. Just then Creature-of-Words arrives and senses his despair. How can she help him communicate and be hap...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Agard has published 22 books.

The next book by John Agard, When Creature Met Creature, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by John Agard, Say It Again Granny, was published in January 1988.

No. John Agard does not write books in series.