Muddle Farm - Axel Scheffler

About two months back my nearly three years old child suddenly discovered magnetic story books at a friend's house . The following week we had a hunt around at nearby toy shops and my eyes caught the Farmer Muddle series of books written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Alex Scheffler. A bit about the Author and Illustrator ................................................................. The writer Julia Donaldson is a mother of three boys and has a sizeable collection of 141 published books to her name of which 'The Gruffalo','The Gruffalo's Child' , 'the Snail and the Whale' and the set of songs turned into a book' A ...  Read the complete review

'Muddle Farm' by Axel Scheffler is such a fun book for small children. In fact, to be accurate, it is a lot more than a book as I will explain. The name Axel Scheffler is probably quite familiar to a lot of people who have young children as he is the illustrator who provides all the fantastic pictures in stories such as 'The Gruffalo' and 'Room on the Broom'. He generally works in collaboration with the writer Julia Donaldson, but for 'Muddle Farm' he has worked on his own. 'Muddle Farm' is actually described as a magnetic play book and that is exactly what it seems to be. It only has four double page spreads and each of these are magnetic. Along ...  Read the complete review