Animals Scare me stiff
An amusing picture book by a well known author.
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The story focuses on Tom, who is followed by a dog. Tom is scared because he thinks the dog will eat him, and here we have a picture which children find amusing- Tom in a bowl labelled ... Read review
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Animals Scare Me Stiff
Babette Cole strikes again with a thrilling take on a child's fear of a host of animals
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ranging from the tiniest bugs to a slithering snake.Tom is minding his own business when he suddenly realises he is being followed by a dog (which is actually very ...
ranging from the tiniest bugs to a slithering snake.Tom is minding his own business when he suddenly realises he is being followed by a dog (which is actually very ...
Animals Scare me stiff
An amusing picture book by a well known author.
~~Story and Illustrations~~
The story focuses on Tom, who is followed by a dog. Tom is scared because he thinks the dog will eat him, and here we have a picture which children find amusing- Tom in a bowl labelled Pedigree Boy, whilst a huge dog bends down to start his lunch!
After the dog, a horse follows Tom, then a bull joins in the procession, then a snake, birds, spiders, ... ...when the big line of animals are following Tom, the spiders are bouncing around on threads.
After following him for a while, the animals come up to Tom and sniff him, and because Tom is so frightened, he falls to the ground but doesn't notice the ants. When he has sat on the ants, Tom screams and pulls off his trousers, at which point we have a funny picture of all the animals running away in terror at such a horrible sight. We see even the ants ...
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Advantages: great storyline, good pictures and loveable characters Disadvantages: paperback cover, gets creased easily.
...a picture of the scary animals from the book. Filled with similar pictures as the front and all in a 'watercolour' full colour format this book is aimed at 5-7 year olds. Back cover is also grey and white, with barcode and a synopsis and pics of animals. Storyline:
Very basic and doesnt follow a pattern really although for some reason it changes tense half way through. Which isn't the best in the way of teaching literacy skills but is more designed ... ...animals are more afraid of us than we are of them. It jumps randomly from one animal and situation to another. There is no logical movement or progression but does serve a good storyline. The characters are firstly portrayed as scary and frightening, but as you go along they growl less and are shown to be 'scaredy cats' themselves. A good morals teaching book, ideal for the want to be vet, as it's basic lesson is 'show animals kindness and they wil ...
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