What Is The Truth? Av Ted Hughes

<p><i>Why is it</i><br><i>The roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawn</i><br><i>Wakes us so early?</i><br><br><i>A warrior king is on fire!</i><br><i>His armour is all crooked daggers and scimitars</i><br><i>And it''s shivering red-hot – with rage!</i><br><br>First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children''s Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains ''a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment'' (The School Librarian).</p>