Site of the week: Children's poetry bookshelf

Children's poetry bookshelf is the web presence of a relaunched poetry book club run by the Poetry Book Society for 7-11 year olds, so there is much plugging of the scheme, but it is still worth highlighting. The lively website is fun for kids, whether they become members of the club (which provides them with two poetry books, three times a year, with activity sheets for £40 standard membership) or not. Young poets can send in their own poems and reviews of poetry books for inclusion on the site, there's a page on poetry events for all the family, and a feature by Andrew Motion, one of the club's patrons, on the importance of poetry for kids. Youngsters themselves might be more interested in the 'fun stuff' section which offers a quiz and a poem puzzle. This is great fun: pick a poem from the list (which ranges from William Blake to Michael Rosen via Lear and Belloc), read it, scramble it then put the poem back together by dragging the words with your mouse. Good for learning poems by heart, even better for creating your own silly nonsense poems.