Mixed Up Fairy Tales - Hilary Robinson

This is a great book and the majority of the Year 2 children I teach try to get their little mits on it whenever they have an opportunity to. This is a book with a difference and is very cleverly done! ~ Style and Format ~ It has 'snippets' of different fairytales and traditional tales on the left side of each double page with additions to the original stories, e.g. Goldilocks / was bossed around by two horrid stepsisters / and fell asleep for ...
...Riding Hood's granny. The short bits of writing are in 4 segments which I have shown with the /. The right hand side of the double page has a picture of each character or event directly opposite the section of writing. The page is then 'cut' in to the 4 different sections so that different pieces of writing or pictures can be moved, enabling the children to make up some very funny versions of their own, e.g. Goldilocks / was laughed at by the ...

neenn 05.04.2007 · Read full review
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