the Tallest Candle - Lynne Broadbent

Advantages: Tells the story with beautiful illustrations
Disadvantages: Too difficult for young children to read alone.

The Tallest Candle Oh yes, Christmas is upon is, and every day in the classroom I am reading stories relating to Christmas and winter… since this story telling happens several times a day, however tenuous the link to the theme, I have to take it! This book however, links in perfectly, and I have read it to children of different ages. It's a handy book for the classroom because it is available in big book format so we can read it during the Literacy ...
...The inside front cover of the book gives some information about advent candles, and explains what each of the 5 candles represent. I thought at first that this was a bit strange, but it does explain that on some of the pages, there is an advent ring hidden for the children to find. There is an explanation of the main events of the nativity story as told in the four Gospels, and the author explains that whilst every attempt has been made to keep ... Read review