Showing posts with label Child's Play Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Child's Play Press. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Stone Soup
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Child's Play Press,
Jess Stockham,
Stone Soup
After a hectic couple of weeks where Creepy Crawlies (at the White Horse Leisure Centre - £3.25 for a few hours of completely manic play for toddlers - thoroughly recommended!) has replaced our usual library trip we're back on schedule.
Catching up with the reviews, Stone Soup has proved to be something of a winner with Charlotte. It's a traditional old fable, beautifully reworked by Jess Stockham with cute and funny animal character illustrations lovingly drawn and painted.
Stone Soup tells the tale of a wandering band of tinkers and their rather neat way of scoring a free supper at the expense of villagers they drop in on. Initially cynical and unfriendly, the villagers soon rally round when the tinkers introduce a mysterious soup stone that can provide the most amazing tasting soup.
Those familiar with the original fable will know what happens next. For the rest of you, I'd definitely suggest picking this book up. There are lots of flip-up pages for toddlers to explore so it should prove as popular as the soup in the story does.
Charlotte's best bit - The stingy tortoise
Daddy's favourite bit - The mysterious soup stone at the end of the book
Rating - 4 out of 5
Friday, 26 November 2010
The Wim Wom from the Mustard Mill
The Wim Wom from the Mustard Mill
Written by Polly Peters
Illustrated by Roberta Angeletti
Amazon Link: £5.99
Published by Child's Play
We all had strange monsters we were warned about when we were kids. For some reason, my parents chose to scare the living daylights out of me by talking about "The Scary Scarecrow" (some years before Worzel Gummidge hit TV screens) and I've never quite got over it.
In "The Wim Wom from the Mustard Mill", two children find out that seemingly everyone knows about the mysterious Wim Wom - except for them. The more they try to understand what a Wim Wom is, the more fantastical tales they're spun by the adults in the book - until the tables are deliciously overturned at the end.
Great storytelling and Roberta Angeletti's artwork is just the right side of "not too menacing" for your little ones, but adds to the fantastic atmosphere the book generates. Might be a bit scary for younger kids but great for inquiring minds.
Charlotte's best bit: The children trying to draw a Wim Wom
Daddy's favourite bit: The rather mean grandma in the book (who is entirely unlike Charlotte's Grandmas!)
Rating: 4 out of 5
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