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Advantages: Lovely rhythmical text
Disadvantages: None

The Train Ride Very simple story with a great rhythmic structure, making it perfect as an early book to read to young children The story is basically following a little girl and her mum as they go on a train journey. The front cover of the book shows us a very simplified picture of a large red train with the driver looking out of the window as they travel through lush fields and the smoke billows out of the train chimney. We start the book and ...
...going on a journey and the next question "What shall I see? What shall I see?" She says that she sees sheep and cows "That's what I see. That's what I see". It's easy to anticipate the structure of the story. The little girl makes a statement about where they are going whether that be over a hill, under a tunnel or talks about what she or train is doing. Following this two line very simple statement, is the question, "What shall I see? What shall ... Read review

Advantages: lots of ideas
Disadvantages: none

Picture the Past These publications seem to be around forever, and in fact, this one was published in 1992, so they have been going strong for quite some time. Whilst involved on a recent topic of Ancient Greece with some Upper Key Stage 2 children, I raked this out, and found it had some really useful ideas; no need for me to actually have to think about displays, just open the book, and hey presto. The pictures are of actual displays completed ...
...by full instructions and a picture of the finished make. The instructions are such that older children will be able to follow then, and because the pictures are usually quite self explanatory, younger children could have a go with minimal explanation, as long as they were given the appropriate materials. At the back of the book there are a series of line drawings, mainly relating to making Victorian decorations, and these can be photocopied, without ... Read review

Advantages: good storyline and characters
Disadvantages: none

...her children's stories. At the beginning of the story we meet the little polar bear who we discover has no friends apart from one snow cloud! The polar bear is quite happy to be friends with the snow cloud and is very fond of him, but also wishes that he could have the sort of friend that he could actually play with. The snow cloud, feeling sorry for the polar bear, decides to help and creates a number of different friends, by dropping snowflakes ...
...seal and finally a reindeer! The polar bear is initially excited by the thought of his new friends, but is soon disappointed when he realises that they can't actually do much. And then, most disappointingly of all, each melt away! After having gone through all of this disappointment, the next day he sees another polar bear. Of course, by now he doesn't expect much, and fully expects that this one will melt away too! However, an extraordinary thing ... Read review

Advantages: Children love Postman Pat so this encorages the love of books and reading
Disadvantages: bit old fashioned maybe .

Postman Pats washing day I am sure there is no one out there who does not know a little about postman pat. John Cuncliffe Published the first postman Pat book in the late 1970’s. He has written many books about Postman Pat since then. The illustrations in the book are all done by Joan Hickson. In 1981 the BBC produced the first series of Postman Pat. Postman Pat has been popular with children and I bet we could all hum /sing the tune postman pat ...
...am going to review is postman pats washing day. This book was written in1988. I bought my copy at a charity shop for 30p new this edition cost £2.95p. 33 pages. There are many books about postman Pat where he encounters everyday experiences while on his post round. Postman Pat stories are based around the postman in the imaginary village Greendale. Where he knows everyone and their business he is a friendly postie having cups of tea on his round ... Read review

Advantages: Good illustrations, good text
Disadvantages: none

Panda big Panda small ISBN: 0789434857. Is book published in 1998 by Dorling Kindersley written and illustrated by Jane Cabrera. The R R P is £4.99p but I purchased it for 30p at my local save the children charity shop. Jane Cabrera has written many children's book This book is designed as a toddler book for pre readers. The copy I have is a paper back but one with thick strong wipe clean .pages there is a label that says toddler proof on it? I ...
...and small black and white panda on it, a very eye catching cover. This book is 24 pages and is a good size to read to a child or a group of children it is 0.5 x 9.5 x 10.2 inches The art work in this book is attractive to young children large simple animal shapes with large blocks of bright primary colours and the Pandas have big eyes and facial features. Each page has a picture of big panda and small panda, and a picture of the opposite things ... Read review