Why is the sky?

This anthology is a wonderful amalgam of the humourous, inventive, surprising and profound.

When a child begins asking 'Why?', he or she has firmly announced their intention to engage with the world and life.

John Agard has arranged his selection of poetry in a way that creates its own narrative drive, the poems question, answer and tease each other.

You will be laughing at a clown one minute and contemplating a hangman the next; quaking at Blake's Tyger while worrying for Grace Nichols's weeping Caterpillar. 'How did the sun get up in the sky?' 'Where do giants go to cry?': Why is the Sky? will give you answers, but perhaps not ones you'd expect.