Fancy Dress Farmyard - Nick Sharratt Reviews
Description:ISBN 140711591X /
Newest Review: ... book reminds me of the others he has done as it it has the same almost square pages and is printed onto really thick paper ... more
... that is ideal for younger children. Also, a key thing for this book is you are not dealing with flimsy flaps glued onto the page of text. Each flap is actually bound into the book and is just a shaped page covering an image on the page behind. So instead of a double page spread, you get one page of text, then a page with a fancy dress costume flap, which is then followed by an illustration of a farmyard animal that looks like a 'normal' animal that a child should recognise. When I say normal, I mean an illustrated ...more
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by - written on 08/11/12 (Very useful, 46 readings)
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Now my kids have reached the grand old ages of 4 and a half and 6 I was pretty sure that they were past flap books, but by the way they enthusiastically picked this at our last library visit, I was slightly proved wrong. This is a 2011 book written and illustrated by Nick Sharratt. Sharratt has worked previously with people like Julia Donaldson, as well as producing books on his own such as Hippo Has a Hat, and Chocolate Moose for Greedy Goose. There is something in his style that is reminiscent of Donaldson in that he likes to use rhyming text, and his books that I have read feature animals and lots of bold colourful illustrations which really seem to appeal ... Read the complete review
