The week before last Baby CrazyEgg was admitted to hospital for what turned out to be a nine-night stay. During the course of the week, I escaped the confines of the children's ward and headed to the nearest shop- Morrisons- to get fresh air and lunch. I returned with a basket of plastic fruit and three books for Baby CrazyEgg. Over the remaining days in hospital, one of these books, "What the Ladybird heard" written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Lydia Monks emerged as the favourite of these new purchases, beating both "Quick Duck!" and one of those big books with buttons that make sounds. Playing safe, I opted for board books, as ...  Read the complete review

Julia Donaldson is the new children's laureate and is most famous for the short children's book the Gruffalo, however, she has been a co-author on a range of other books for children. One of them is with Lydia Monks as the cartoonist called what the ladybird heard and tells the tale of a farm. The book is printed in large pages, it's colourful and the language is poetic and flowing. What the ladybird heard is a very simple tale telling the story of a ladybird on the farm, the farm contains a prize cow and two bad men are trying to steal the cow. They draw a plan to steal the cow based on the noises of the animals as they walk past there barns in the dead of ...  Read the complete review

This book was given to my daughter as a Christmas present last year to join the expanding amount of books that we currently own. As with every new book my daughter was excited to read it that same evening, after that books tend to be lost at the back of the book shelf however, this book has made a new trend in our house as it has become one of my daughters favourites and she enjoys to read It over and over again. The book 'what the ladybird heard' is written by Julia Donaldson who is most famous for writing books such as 'the Gruffalo and 'Monkey puzzle'. Now I am a very big fan of Julia Donaldson's books and we have a large collection of them in our ...  Read the complete review

After reading a review on Dooyoo about t his book I needed to get it for my children, firstly because they both love ladybirds, but also because we are all big fans of Julia Donaldson. So when it became available I bought it without a second thought. The version we have is a large paperback but is actually quite sturdy with the pages being quite thick. The cover is very attractive in a bright glittery yellow colour with several farm animals around the edges...and of course a glittery ladybird. It's bound to attract anyone's eye. The book tells the tale of a load of farm animals who are actually all quite noisy, but the ladybird never says a ...  Read the complete review

What the Ladybird heard is a brilliant children's book written by Julia Mcdonald. Illustration is by Lydia Monks. Julia Mcdonald is most known for her book "The Gruffalo". THE BOOK (STORY): ================= The book is about a prize Cow living on a farm with other animals including a little Ladybird that doesn't ever say a word, until one day, he hears of a plan of two robbers who want to steal the prize Cow!. The ladybird then tells all the other animals and comes up with a plan to get the robbers caught. The story is very funny and also teaches children what animals make what sounds as one page if full of the animals sounds. ...  Read the complete review