Poetry and Paper mâché – Brighton’s 2017 Children’s Parade…

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opens the Festival with New Orleans style music, colourful costumes, paper parasols,

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wasps and wings, a unicorn, blackbirds, an owl and a pussycat and naturally cows that go bong!

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Seventy schools have taken part each with a children’s poem as the theme …

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Poems by Spike Milligan, Edward Lear, Caroline Duffy and many others are represented here today!

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endless work for those teachers, parents, carers and well as the children. Thousands attend and enjoy the event including me!

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