My Granny Went to Market: A Round-the-world Counting Rhyme - Stella Blackstone

My Granny Went to Market is a rather odd book on first inspection but it is one which my son requests with great frequency and it really seems to stimulate his imagination. The story is simple. Granny goes to Istanbul where she purchases a magic carpet. The carpet then proceeds to take her around the world where she picks up more objects, always one more than the country before, before going to Peru where she finally relinquishes the carpet to, we assume, the grandson/daughter, to carry on the adventure. The objects picked up in each country are appropriate to that country but barring a couple are perhaps not instantly recognisable to most ...  Read the complete review