Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose - Julia Donaldson > Reviews

Advantages: Bright and colourful book, short story line, ideal for young children
Disadvantages: None

...holding a big bowl of chocolate mousse. There is a orange band at the top of the book, with the author and illustrators names. The Story. ~~~~~~~~ Like many of Julias books, this is a ryhming story. The story line is very simple and with an average of 10-13 words per page, it is an ideal story for young children. The story begins with 'hungry seal' waiting for his 'meal', 'busy cow' brings the meal. There are other animals gathered around ... Read review

Advantages: Rhyming, adjectives, animals
Disadvantages: Swan doesn't get any chocolate mousse

...macaroni and carrots followed by chocolate mousse, but in the realm of children's books anything is possible. Julia Donaldson has in fact created a wonderful book bursting with rhyme, adjectives and the idea of differing personalities in Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose. The title is actually based on a line from one of the pages and the alliteration probably makes it the most obvious one to have been chosen. On each page we meet a different animal, ... Read review

Advantages: lovely rhymes - fantastic illustrations
Disadvantages: none

***The Author & Illustrator*** As with quite a few of her books, Julia Donaldson has paired up with Nick Sharratt to put together this wonderful rhyming book. Julia Donaldson is such a popular author that I'm sure most of you out there with young children will have seen one of her books, if not actually own a few yourselves. Her most well known book has to be the Gruffalo but she has also written lots of other fantastic books such as Conjuror ... Read review