Advantages: Great illustrations Disadvantages: Rather short
...focus of children's poetry, but Mister Magnolia by Quentin Blake is the story of a poor man who had only one boot: 'He has green parakeets who pick holes in his suit - And some very fat owls who are learning to hoot - But Mr Magnolia has only one boot.' Mister Magnolia may sound like a sorry character, but lacking a boot doesn't seem to stop him having fun. He dances while his two sisters play the flute, takes children for a ride on his scooter, ... ...as a little girl presents Mister Magnolia with a parcel that contains another boot. It doesn't match the one he already has, but never mind, it's a boot, and Mister Magnolia is deliriously happy. It might seem like a strange story, but Quentin Blake is of course the genius behind the illustrations to Roald Dahl's books, and he has provided wonderful coloured drawings to his own story here. We are introduced to Mister Magnolia's purple dinosaur, and ...
denella 03.08.2009
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