Advantages: Ingenious slant on the favourite fairy stories Disadvantages: none
***Background***
Most parents will be aware of Lauren Child these days, or at the least the characters, Charlie and Lola, that she has made household names with our children. She has also written and illustrated many other storybooks too and this is one of those.
***The Story***
The story begins with a little boy called Herb, being read a bedtime story by his mother. "Sometimes it was about a big wolf who terrified little girls and their grandmothers ... ...You could tell from the picture that toothpaste had never been on his shopping list."
This is Herb's favourite story and he loves the picture on the back of the book with a wolf that has an eye patch. Herb insists that his mother take the book downstairs every night because he is scared of the storybook wolves but one night she forgets and the story continues with the appearance of the storybook wolves turning up in Herb's bedroom.
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Advantages: Imaginative and Creative and Funny Disadvantages: None
...is some duplication from my I am absolutely too small for school review.
Author:/Illustrator: Lauren Child
Publisher: Publish Date: Genre: Children's Picture Book
Age Suitability: 4 - 8 (This is according to the publisher's my 2 ½ year old reads them now and I would suggest this would be of interest to kids older than 6)
Number of Pages: 32
Amazon Price: £4.74 RRP: £5.99
***About the Author*** (taken from I am absolutely too small for school)
... ...Charlie and Lola*** (taken from I am absolutely too small for school) For those of you who haven't read any of the Charlie and Lola series, you may have seen the TV adaptation of the books on BBC or Nickelodeon Junior.
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