I was given this book second hand when my daughter was still a baby. It would seem most children go through a In the night garden stage as my son did too and now my daughter is in that stage. In the night garden for those that don't know if a children s programme set in the woods and Iggle piggle, Upsy Daisy and Makka Pakka are just some of the characters in it. It is not a animation but real people in very good costumes.

I personally have never really liked it as they talk in weird language like Makka pakka akka wakka wooo! but there is lots of colours, music and tuneful birds in it to keep the children entertained.

Each character has it's own book and story in the series of them. Makka Pakka likes to wash the other characters faces which is the base of the book.

It is a hard board book just 7 pages long. RRP is £3.99 but can currently be found on Amazon for £1.99.

The story tells how Makka Pakka spends his day doing his favourite thing which is washing faces. He wakes and leaves his little cave then he travels around on his Og-Pog (trike to me and you). His Og-pog has a little holder on it for his soap and sponge to go on. He then proceeds to travel round cleaning all his friends faces coming out with weird wonderful sayings. Hum dum agga pang...

Each page has bright colourful pictures on it. My daughter shouts out the character names as she sees them. Being only 7 pages long it only takes a few minutes to read through it but you can extend this by adding more info and asking questions for the child to answer during the story.
Being a board book it is lasting well and only a tiny bit of wear and tear on it so far.

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