The Same Inside: Poems about Empathy and Friendship

The Final Year

Does Your Face Fit?

Caterpillar Cake: Read-Aloud Poems to Brighten Your Day

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 13: TreeTops: Front Page Story

What Are We Fighting For?

Attack of the Black Rectangles

Glam Prix Racers: Fast to the Finish!

The Same Inside is a sweet and thoughtful collection of poems for children, about friendship, empathy and respect by three of the nation's best-loved poets, Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens.

These fifty poems deal sensitively with feelings, empathy, respect, courtesy, bullying, disability and responsibility. They are the perfect springboard to start conversations.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

The Same Inside: Poems about Empathy and Friendship

Liz Brownlee, 2018

The Final Year

Matt Goodfellow, 2025

Does Your Face Fit?

Roger Stevens, 2011

Caterpillar Cake: Read-Aloud Poems to Brighten Your Day

Krina Patel-Sage, Matt Goodfellow, 2021

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 13: TreeTops: Front Page Story

Roger Stevens, Jacqui Thomas, 1995

What Are We Fighting For?

Brian Moses, Roger Stevens, 2014

Attack of the Black Rectangles

Amy Sarig King, 2022

Glam Prix Racers: Fast to the Finish!

Deanna Kent, Neil Hooson, 2022