A Book In Every Stocking Poem - by Elli

The campaign lobbing Santa to 'Put a Book in Every Stocking' is gaining momentum.  Here we have a beautiful poem in support of the campaign by Elli, please check out her site for more heart-warming poems by pressing here. 

A Book in Every Stocking

What’s in this stocking? What’s in this stocking?

It’s really appalling, it’s dreadful, it’s shocking!

Open it up. Go take a look.

Plenty of toys but not one single book!

Lots of cheap plastic which may look fantastic

Until it gets bust the next day.

Battery-powered toys which make plenty of noise

They’re horrible – take them away!

What’s in this stocking? What’s in this stocking?

It’s really appalling, it’s dreadful, it’s shocking!

Mass-produced tat. Look at all that!

It will only amuse for a while.

What children need is a book they can read

To give them a long-lasting smile.

What’s in this stocking? What’s in this stocking?

It’s really appalling, it’s dreadful, it’s shocking!

Please Father Christmas, please little elves,

Just give us some books we can put on our shelves!

© Elli Woollard 2012

Thanks so much Elli! 

Starting tomorrow we will have suggestion to Santa of books which will make great stocking fillers, by authors, librarians' children and many other book loving folk. So please do remember to come back and see what books are added to the stockings!

And don't forget to add this to use the tag if you Tweet or Facebook!  #Book_in_every_stocking