'Muddle Farm' by Axel Scheffler is such a fun book for small children. In fact, to be accurate, it is a lot more than a book as I will explain.
The name Axel Scheffler is probably quite familiar to a lot of people who have young children as he is the illustrator who provides all the fantastic ... Read review
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Advantages: A great magnetic play book! Disadvantages: none!
...quite simple telling of Farmer Muddle and the fact that everything is in a bit of a muddle on his farm. The four pages also progress throughout a typical day starting with when the animals wake up, moving on to when they eat and eventually with them all getting ready to sleep at night!
On each of the pages though your child is asked to do something specific with the magnetic animals. For example on one page they have to place the adult animals next ... ...to the food they are likely to eat. This can prompt quite a lot of discussion about the different animals and the sorts of things they do. On the first page the children are encouraged to make all the different animal noises which I'm sure you can imagine is often a bit noisy. Finally, on the last page all the animals are put to bed and they can go back in their barn again. Peace at last!
My youngest daughter was given this for her second birthday ...
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Advantages: Wonderful play book Disadvantages: Challenges Parent's own knowledge & has lots of piece to loose
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RRP £9.99
ISBN 1-405-0204-8
Publisher: Campbell Books, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Books
Suitable for children over 36 months due to small parts ...
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