All Better!

Everyone hates going to the doctor – taking their medicine, having their temperature taken, maybe having to go for surgery. This collection of poems and rhymes helps to make being sick a little less scary, with poems about broken bones, the chickenpox, having an injection and many more – with characters that will make young readers smile and laugh. Children can sing along to Owen’s Broken Bone Blues, meet Ultan Ulrich Ultrasound – the man who can look right into your insides with his magical powers – and Eliza Analyser, who looks at all your cells under the microscope. Translated from Latvian and retold for the English market by award-winning Irish poet Catherine Ann Cullen.

About the Author

Inese Zandere has been writing since 1990 and is one of the foremost poets for children in Latvia with fice poetry collections to her name. She is also one of Latvian’s best-loved authors of novels and fiction, with over twenty novels published to date. Inese Zandere is also the chief editor and publisher at the Riga children’s publishing house, Liels un mazs. Catherine Ann Cullen is a poet for both adults and children with two picturebooks and two collections of poetry previously published. She is the winner of multiple awards for poetry, including the Frances Ledwidge Award, and works in schools and libraries all over the country to promote and teach creative writing to young people. Petersons’ first illustrated book was published in 2007, and since then he has established himself as one of the most productive contemporary illustrators in Latvia with over 20 children’s books under his belt. Petersons style pays great attention to character detail, with authentic emotion captured through expressive faces and strong palettes. Petersons uses both traditional and digital media.