Goldilocks on CCTV

"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 children characters like Pumpkin Biker Cinderella, two ugly sisters with attitude, Puss-in-Trainers, a feline with a feel for the cool, the Giant with a mobile phone . . . not to mention the Bad Hair Day Fairy. Here are 30 amazing poems rooted in the world of fairy tale and legend. Wickedly witty, deliciously subversive, and utterly modern, the poems are also affectionate and big-hearted tributes to the original tales and characters that inspired them. This is a sizzling new collection from a master poet, brought explosively to life by Satoshi Kitamura's extraordinary black-and-white illustrations.

JOHN AGARD is one of the most popular and highly-regarded poets writing in Britain today. His poem Half-Caste is on the GCSE syllabus and he performs at Poetry Live events throughout the country. His adult collection, We Brits, was shortlisted for the 2007 British Book Awards Decibel Writer of the Year Award. His book for teens, The Young Inferno, won the CLPE Poetry Prize Award in 2009, was nominated for both the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards in 2010 and shortlisted for the 2010 UKLA Award. Goldilocks on CCTV, his poetry collection for 11 plus, inspired by fairy tales, is on the 2012 CLPE Award shortlist. John lives in Lewes, Sussex, with his wife the poet Grace Nichols.

SATOSHI KITAMURA was born in Tokyo and he started work in advertising as an artist and came to London. He has written and illustrated 20 of his own books and illustrated many more. He has won a number of awards, among them the Mother Goose Award, Bronze Winner and a shortlisting for the Smartie Prize, a National Art Library Award and The New York Times Notable Book of the Year Award.