Synopsis
Professor Poet's holiday plans are put on hold when the team pick up a signal of rhyme activity from children in Edinburgh.
- Programme: The Rhyme Rocket
- Episode: Holidays
- Channel: CBeebies
- Broadcast year: 2012
- English | Reading | Comprehension | Read aloud poems and playscripts
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