Hey, Girl!

Always truthful, deeply perceptive and understanding, this new collection from Rachel Rooney explores what it means to be a girl in the 21st Century

Rachel Rooney's much-anticipated new collection focuses on what it means to be a young teenage girl, in poems that are sometimes lyrical, sometimes pensive, sometimes right in your face. Always, though, whether reminiscent or challenging, her writing is truthful, perceptive and understanding. Its poems will be read by boys as well as girls. But they speak to girls most directly, reaching deep into what it means to be a 21st century teenager. Dealing with the public and private self, perception and reality: full of memories, dangers, difficulties, and humorous situations, they are the work of an outstanding poet at the height of her powers.

About the Author

Rachel Rooney is among the most admired children's poets of our time. She worked as a teacher of special needs children while bringing up her three sons and continues to take a close interest in the welfare of children with mental health problems. She is the author of A Kid In Our Class, shortlisted for the CLiPPA Children's Poetry Prize in 2019, and one of the most widely-read poetry collections for children. Rachel is also author of The Language of Cat, winner of the CLPE Poetry Prize in 2011, and My Life as a Goldfish (2014). She lives in Brighton, England.

About the Illustrator

Milo Hartnoll studied illustration at the University of Brighton, and is a painter and illustrator. He lives in Brighton.