[url= https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Night-Stories-Rebel-Girls/dp/014198600X/ ]Good Night Stories for rebel girls[/url] is a nice break from the norm...
Agree 100% - memorably bad, charmless book. I've read a few books to the kids where you think this is so bad it must be some sort of hidden joke, but they're all forgotten titles. For a book like this to endure from the 60s is really strange.
Nail meet head.
The book is definitely nonsensical, but as others have said, kids love it. 50th anniversary of the first publication next year, so she's clearly doing something right!
Indeed she lives in a very nice house. She did write a trilogy, When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit being the first in the series, about her life including her family's escape from Nazi Germany, which is a very good way of introducing your kids to this period of history.
no. you're wrong, it's brilliant. Mog the cat is also good.
Hungry caterpillar is inspired.
only one i've read recently that disappointed was where the wild things are. didn't live up to the hype.
Everyone needs to get in to the Hairy Maclary books!
I fail to see how a kids book can get people so wound up. Out little 'un quite likes it, it doesn't really bother me.
No Flashy, they do not. Hairy Maclary from Donaldsons Dairy mysteriously goes missing when it's my turn to read the bedtime stories
Hairy Maclary rocks. I don't get to read them enough.
Polly Jean pyjama queen was always popular in our house along with billys bucket and the magic shoebox farm.
The old 'classics' like Tiger for tea and the mog stories, and the hungry Caterpillar etc.... Awful.
Half of Julia Donaldson and axel schefflers stuff seems like lazy cashing in on their fame from the good ones.
Aliens love underpants had a good run in our house.
I fail to see how a kids book can get people so wound up. Out little 'un quite likes it, it doesn't really bother me.
I'll let you into a little secret: I wasn't being entirely truthful about how annoyed I was. I still maintain its a terrible children's book, but as you point out if my child likes it I'm all for it.
i thought the same, assumed it was just beyond my level of intellect, Likewise "I want my hat back"
For a satisfying ending i'd recommend....
Some Dogs Do.
When I read it to my Son, I read the Tiger as Brian Blessed. TP Jnr. approves of this. OWP!
Definitely think Julia Donaldson just churns out stuff with little regard for the poor adults having to read out her stuff again and again and again.
Love the work of Jon Klassen though...
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Definitely think Julia Donaldson just churns out stuff with little regard for the poor adults having to read out her stuff again and again and again.
Yeah... But [i]One Ted Falls Out of Bed[/i] is still one of my favourites.
One Ted Falls Out of Bed
Yep!
Jon Klassen is good although they can get a bit wound up with Sam and Dave dig a hole so its not the best for bedtime 🙂
we do, in French, as she is half French
Then you have my utmost sympathy.
Yeah "One Ted Falls Out of Bed" is alright. I also don't mind "The Snail and the whale".
I do enjoy trying to spot where axel as slipped the gruffalo into a drawing in the other books, seen him in Tiddler and in Scarecrows Wedding but still looking in many others.
Noticed several other illustrators doing similar across books too
Agree one Ted is good, think it's played a major part in getting my (just) 2 yo counting to 7 so far.
The elephant and the bad baby, all build up then "oh I've run out of pages... the end".
At least with I want my hat back, there is something for the adult
My son loved it , and laughed like a drain as the tiger ate everything. Children have a different idea of entertainment which appears to be much more incident based than narrative plot. He's now on to Harry Potter with his mum and Roald Dahl with me,big tip "Going Solo" maybe sold in the collections but it isn't suitable for a six year old.
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The Ahlberg's stuff is very good out of the older books - [i]each peach pear plum[/i] was written in the 70s and went down well with our kids.neilnevill - MemberThe old 'classics' like Tiger for tea and the mog stories, and the hungry Caterpillar etc.... Awful.
Half of Julia Donaldson and axel schefflers stuff seems like lazy cashing in on their fame from the good ones.
Roald Dahl with me,big tip "Going Solo" maybe sold in the collections but it isn't suitable for a six year old.
Superb book though. My wife bought a Dahl collection for my 6yo Daughter with Going Solo in it. Right up my street.
Jeeze, I was just typing that I put the Ahlbergs stuff in the same awful bracket.....didn't help that my daughter fond funny bones amazng for months and months...'read it daddy, read it, read' AAAAAARrrrrrrrggggggghhhhh!
The Ahlberg's stuff is very good out of the older books - each peach pear plum was written in the 70s and went down well with our kids.
Peepo is also excellent.
going solo? is that the shorts of his RAF days? yeah, not quite james and giant peach
seen him in Tiddler and in Scarecrows Wedding but still looking in many others.
He's hidden in Stick Man too. And Zogg.
The Oliver Jeffers books were a big hit but essentially anything nonsensical worked - 'TigerTea' was a big favourite (I liked the idea of drinking all the water in the tap), Dr Seuss, Ahlbergs...
DON'T FORGET THE BACON!!!
damn! zog just went back to library and couldnt see gruff in it!
Hasn't David walliams ripped the tiger story off with one of his books but used an elephant instead..
now zeuss i like, although oddly i didnt as a kid. love reading if i ran the circus.....daughter? hates it. poo
peepo? shoot me now
Hasn't David walliams ripped the tiger story off with one of his books but used an elephant instead..
Julia Donaldson ripped off "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes. On the one hand that annoys me, on the other hand it's one of the best read-out-loud bits of writing ever.
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.
