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What Does a Duck Pull At Xmas - Quackers!!!

Advantages: Flaps and fun
Disadvantages: Duck isn't on every page

***Background*** This book has text by Richard Powell and the illustrations are from Steve Cox. Richard Powell has provided the writing for lots of other board books especially for toddlers. Steve Cox has also illustrated and designed many lift the flap books but has also worked with well-known authors such as Anne Fine. This series was made especially for WH Smith. ***The Content*** The book starts off with a noise and a question. "Twit! Twooo! ...
...is a pair of owls hiding in a tree. This board book then keeps this format to look all over the countryside to find different animals and ends with the woodpecker asking, "Who's that?" When we lift the final flap we see a man with binoculars sitting in a special shed watching the wildlife. "Shhhhhhhh! Do you think they have seen me?" he asks. ***My Thoughts*** I was a bit confused at the title of this book as I thought we would see the duck ...

belfin 12.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Quack! Who is in the Country? - Steve Cox, Richard Powell

Who's That Snoring?

Advantages: Explores animal sounds
Disadvantages: none

***Background*** This is the second book in the series that we have had from the local library. It has text by Richard Powell and the illustrations are from Steve Cox. Richard Powell has provided the writing for lots of other board books especially for toddlers. Steve Cox has also illustrated and designed many lift the flap books but has also worked with well-known authors such as Anne Fine. ***The Content*** It is a noise and a question that ...
...Who's on the farm?" Look inside and we find another sound and question. "Cock-a-doodle-doo! Who's that?" On the adjoining page is the picture of a clock up on a roof and when this clock flap is pulled down, we can see a cockerel sitting crowing away. Following on we can find a pig, a cow and a sheepdog, all hiding behind big flaps. The books end with all the animals looking on in wonderment as they hear a snoring noise coming from behind a haystack. ...

belfin 23.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Baa! Who's On The Farm - Richard Powell

Copy Cats

Advantages: Novel way of getting your kids moving whilst reading
Disadvantages: none

...this series, the other being Animal Noises. As well as these books he has also written a large number of others for the under 5's, many of them board books for easy turning of pages for little fingers. His partner for these is Ana Martin-Larranaga who draws the pictures. She was born in Spain but moved to Scotland to work, where she lived for seven years before moving over to Germany a couple of years ago. ***The Book*** This book is very different ...
...spinner are 3 or 4 animal pictures with instructions next to them. It's up to your child to spin it and see where it lands, and then to do the actions as in the picture. Each page has a hole in the centre so that even when you turn the pages you can still get access to either of the spinners. Throughout the book we are asked to pounce like a cat, wriggle like a worm or to stand on one leg like a flamingo. Some of the animals featured are a mole, ...

belfin 19.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Animal Actions - Richard Powell

a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fu

Advantages: : FUN!!!
Disadvantages: :A numb tongue

FOX IN SOCKS DR SEUS Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American writer and cartoonist best known for his children's books written under the pen name Dr. Seuss. He published over 60 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters and rhymes. These were mainly known in America, but they do seem to have gained popularity in the UK. I can remember when reading books to my son when he was little, I was always pleased ...
...four year old picked up Fox in Socks. Macho Mum here thought 'NO problem' - if a cat in a hat didn't faze me a fox in socks would be easy meat!! But what I found was that Fox in Socks is essentially Sam-I-Am with a taste for tongue twisters!! Dr. Seuss had a devilish streak in him, part of what makes everyone love him so much - in the same way Roald Dahl's wickedness woos children everywhere. Fox in Socks actually comes with a warning label on the ...

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Review of Fox in Socks - Dr. Seuss

If You Liked Twilight...

Advantages: Entertaining read, interesting take on vampires
Disadvantages: Bit hard to get into

...earth and ordinary. The hardships of being a vampire are described through the eyes of our heroine, Nina, forever stuck as a fifteen-year-old after being bitten in 1973. She explains her condition means she suffers a variety of side effects, including nausea, weakness, pale skin and bleeding from the eyes if they aren’t protected by sunglasses during daylight. Nina is part of a group called the Reformed Vampire Support Group, where the local vampires ...
...pigs and supplements. The Support Group is a mish-mash of different kinds of vampires from knitting old ladies to a former rock star. As with any group, there are good and bad apples amongst the buch and one of the bad ones – Casimir – is soon found killed. This leads the group to a quest of finding his killer and assuring the group’s safety and security. This leads them on an interesting adventure, where they meet some frightening men in the Australian ...

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Review of The Reformed Vampire Support Group - Catherine Jinks