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by destiny2909 - written on 17/08/08 (Very useful, 17 readings)
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Mr Wolf wants to make some pancakes, but his rude and uncooperative neighbours won't give him any help. Chicken Licken, Wee Willie Winkie, the Ginerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs all give him the brush-off, so in the end he has to make them himself. When it comes to eating them though it's a different story, and everyone wants some. Mr Wolf lives up to his reputation and eats them instead, saving just enough room for his pancakes as well. This book takes advantage of stories that every child knows. The author uses well-known nursery rhymes and fairy tales and twists them to come up with a brand new tale that should amuse both adults ...
by newby2 - written on 05/11/07 (Very useful, 211 readings)
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Mr Wolf's Pancakes by Jan Fearnley Another successful trip to the library and this time I struggled home with 15 different books! Luckily for me a few of these books were paperback instead of the usual hard or board back books that you often get with small children's fiction. One of the paperback books was in fact this book called Mr Wolf's Pancakes. I initially picked up this book because of the wonderfully bright illustrated front cover, which depicts a cartoon drawing of a wolf holding fresh steaming hot pancakes. The Book is relatively new and looking inside the first few pages I can see that the book was first published in ...
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