Click Clack Moo, cows that type - a book that had me and my parents actually LOLing, especially if you're old enough to remember the strikes and ACAS negotiations of the 70s80s
not seen the gruff in stick man or zog.. not a fan of stick man tho so will leave that - I do love the snail and the whale
Half of Julia Donaldson and axel schefflers stuff seems like lazy cashing in on their fame from the good ones.
Yes but the good ones are excellent.
Don't really have any issues with the Tiger Who Came to Tea, its better than that Peter Rabbit shite that's for sure
will be checking the other JD books tonight, i've seen Gruffalo in Tiddler and zog.
Oliver Jeffers Stuck goes down a storm in our house.
for other authors: I also love penguin (Polly Dunbar), good little wolf (Nadia Shireen) and Whiffy Wilson the wolf who wouldn't wash (Caryl Hart).
[quote=nickhit3 ]it does need to make some kind of sense.
Yeah, because all good children's stories make complete logical sense.
I quite like JDs cave baby too.
The Boris puppet book was a big hit too ... Especially read in a Russian accent with an out of control Boris...
'Giraffes can't dance' and 'chimpanzees of happy town' have gone down well and not bored of yet.
Yeah, because all good children's stories make complete logical sense.
yeah, because people don't read threads properly.
Great fresh and original point there, well done.
its better than that Peter Rabbit shite that's for sure
get out. I mean it.
also i wont tire of 'jack and the flum flum tree' any time soon......'Don't get you're knickers in a twist! lets have a look in the patchwork sack!'
altogethernow...
BLOWYERNOSE!
far too exciting for bedtime.
Who's on the loo ftw esp read after a few wines !
Sharks! cried stu, Lots! cried Rose.
fab book that flum flum.
tyrannosaurous drip also quite good.
Yup, our two love it, plenty chance to do it in lots of silly voices too. One of her best efforts.
I wrote a risk assessment for the tiger that came to tea as an example for a colleague. She then shared it around various NHS trusts and I'm a little embarrassed when it comes up, it is a solid risk assessment though...
I had to do the Smartest Giant in Town for secret reader for #2 spawn’s class yesterday.
Someone got the entire Beatrix Potter series for ours. Dire. Went straight to the charity shop.
Shirley Hughes gets alot of love here, dogger and able's moon.
although I would now welcome a change from Green Eggs and Ham.
Do you not like Green Eggs and Ham?
Smartest giant in town, now that is one of JD and AS's 'cash in, we wrote this on the bus to the publisher' ones.
Sean locks version makes a bit more sense the tiger who came for a pint.
No one has commented on the most annoying/sinister part of The Tiger Who Came To Tea: where Sophie and her mum stand around wondering what to do because there is nothing for supper & they’re all helpless because presumably Daddy keeps Sophie’s mummy locked indoors and certainly doesn’t allow her any money to spend but then Daddy the hero/captor/repressor walks in all like ‘hey I’ve got the ideas and the money, we can go outside and buy food!’.
No? Just me? Ok. [/rant]
Anyway, this is much better:
[url= http://www.librarything.com/work/13018747 ]The Worst Princess [/url]
It's ok , glad he's grown out of it. I've read it so many times,I started to create back stories to it.For example, the man walking past the family when they're on their way to the cafe has been for a very long lunch.
A bunch of parents were talking about books at school pick up the other day - particularly how good roald dahl is for getting them to sleep.
Competitive dad claims his five year old had already read the entire collection. guffaw.
BTW -Jon klassen is popular in our house - as is Rabbit & Bear by julian gough(i think).
What a load of sh1t that book is. Am I missing something? is it some lofty allegory for something from the 60's?
You are wrong. Perhaps you needed to have it read to you when you were a child. It's just fantasy - when you are a child random stuff happens and things are more fantastical. I mean - _all_ the water in the tap!
She has said in interviews that there was no intention of allegory despite growing up in Nazi Germany.
I mean - _all_ the water in the tap!
Mrs CFH grew up in Westminster, and their water was from a fed tank which would, if taps left running, empty. So, apparently, that bit makes sense.
There is only one tiger that deserves (many) books...
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I had to read 'Maisy makes gingerbread' every night for about a year to Dab jnr. Adding random ingredients to the list always got a laugh... *sigh* now he's nearly 15.
Guess How Much I Love You, a tale of how Big Nutbrown Hare is an over competitive dad.
I quite liked it, offspring liked it because she's also called Sophie. But not as much as The Mole Who Knew It Was None Of His Business.
I miss reading books to her - that stage passed way too fast.
You lot know nothing. I just had to read Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Merry Christmas.
Don't really have any issues with the Tiger Who Came to Tea, its better than that Peter Rabbit shite that's for sure
Not a fan of Peter Rabit; luckily the little guy hates it.
I agree that some it the Julia Donaldson stuff is rubbish; the Gruffalo, Stickman and Snail and the Whale are all good. Super worm and Highway Rat are a bit poo. Toby loves Cave Baby and Tyrannosaurus Drip which I don't particularly like.
I want my hat back is good. I though it was a bit odd when I first read it but it's grown on me.
I don't particularly get the tiger who came to tea either, which is odd as it's less mad than the gruffalo etc.
Best vintage book we have is Six Dinner Sid, the cat who needs 6 dinners but gets busted for being a tart.
Six Dinner Sid - love that book
We’re going through an Oliver Jeffers phase with Funk Jr at the moment. Stuck is a great book, but not if you’re looking for sensible or moral.