The Big Sneeze - Ruth Brown

Advantages: Introduces pre-school children to lots of animals. Beautifully illustrated
Disadvantages: None

I have this in the Big Book version and generally read it to the Nursery children or Reception in the first few weeks of term. - The story - It begins with a farmer and his animals having a snooze in the barn when a fly lands on the farmer's nose. This makes him sneeze so loudly and forcefully that the fly is catapulted in to the spider's web. The spider captures the fly which alerts the sparrow who proceeds to chase the spider. This wakes the ...
...all of the animals wake up and make such a commotion that the farmer's wife comes to the barn to ask him what he has done. It ends with a totally puzzled and dishevelled farmer saying "Nothing my dear, I only sneezed!" -Illustrations - I have to say that these 'make' the book. They are immensely detailed and the reader gets a real feel of the barn with the rays of sun shining through the open door. The animals are superbly protrayed and so life-like ... Read review