Advantages: Great rhymes and fantastic pictures Disadvantages: none
***Background***
Tony Mitton has had a lot of experience with children, as he is a qualified primary teacher. His books are full of delightful stories told in rhyme and this one impressed so much that it won a Sheffield Children's Book Award in 2005.
Guy Parker-Rees is the genius behind the amazing illustrations in this book. He has collaborated on many of Tony Mitton's books, as well as sharing his talent with other authors too, such as Dick King-Smith ... ...with a dog and a cat walking through a wood in the dead of night.
"Bong! Goes the bell in the rickety tower,
Twelve times...that means it's Spooky Hour.
Listen! Hush! Oooh, what's that sound?
The midnight spooks are coming round."
As they venture through the woods they see many strange and creepy sights, including eleven witches round a big cauldron, ten ghosts swirling in the air and nine skeletons that dance as they make a clickety-clack sound.
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Advantages: Wonderful rhymes and pictures make this a great asset for any budding spaceman Disadvantages: none
...***Background***
TonyMitton is best known to me for being the author of the fantastic, Spookyrumpus, but this book is part of a series about Amazing Machines and there are quite a few others in it to choose from.
Ant Parker illustrates the series.
***The Story***
"Wow!
Rockets have power. They rise and roar.
This rocket's waiting, ready to soar.
Rockets carry astronauts with cool, white suits,
oxygen helmets and gravity boots."
We then see a rabbit, a mouse and an owl go into the rocket and we see a countdown before they blast off into space. We learn about the fuel tanks and how they drop off and find out about gravity and how you float about in space if you aren't strapped in.
The friends soon find themselves near the moon and launch the lunar lander before they take a walk on the moon. When the mission...
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