My youngest loves books (well both my girls do) and she got a few for her birthday back in April. Her favourite one at the moment seems to be "The tiger book".
The Tiger Who Came To Tea is written and illustrated by Judith Kerr. The front of the book shows a picture of Sophie; the little girl the tiger had tea with and the tiger himself. The story starts off with Sophie and her mummy having tea which is interrupted by the doorbell. Sophie goes to open the door and there is a big furry tiger telling her he is very hungry and asking if he could have tea with them. Of course mummy says yes! (like you would).
"Would you like a sandwich?" asks Sophie's mummy but the tiger doesn't take one, he takes them all. The story goes on with the tiger taking all the food and drink and then searching in the cupboards for more. Eventually the tiger has eaten and drank everything in the house. Then mummy has nothing for daddy's supper! (Oh dear, what will she do and what will he eat !) Sophie can't even have a bath because the tiger has drank all the tap water (small reservoirs). When daddy comes home and they tell him what's happened he decides they should go to a cafe, so off they go.
This book gives you lots to discuss with your little one, even at an early age you can get children to talk about the pictures. My daughter realises that it is silly, that a tiger wouldn't come to tea but that's what makes it enjoyable.
My daughter loves her older sister to read this book to her although she gets impatient and tries to hurry the story up. She even tells the story to us - which is really lovely. She only tells us the tiger bits though. "Mummy says hello" "tiger eats the cakes" things like that and then she knows that tiger says bye.
Myt daughter enjoys this book so much that we get bored of it!
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Advantages: I think it has good quality pictures which you can use as a starting point with younger children. Disadvantages: Can have limited life as your children grow up.
Jul 7th, 2009
(Jul 9th, 2009)
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