Get My Eggs From Under My Flaps (Oh Dear! - Rod Campbell)

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Product:	Oh Dear! - Rod Campbell
Date:	20.04.06 (98 review reads)
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Advantages: Great fun book with flaps

Disadvantages: none

***Background***

Oh Dear was written by Rod Campbell and was first published in 1983 so has been around for a long time. This series of books all feature a little boy, who is very inquisitive and loves looking into things, and with your child’s help he can see them by the way of flaps. As well as writing these books he also illustrates them too but is probably better known for the best selling book Dear Zoo that has sold over 2 million copies.

***The Story***

Buster is staying with his Grandma on her farm and is asked to collect some eggs for breakfast. Unfortunately he can’t quite remember where to get them from and so he goes off to search for them.

“So he went to the barn and asked the…”

We are then left with a picture of a cow under the two doors of the barn with the word “Moo” above it. He visits the animals on the farm in their various homes but he always gets the same answer,

“No eggs here! Oh Dear!”

This happens every time when he visits the cow, the pig, the sheep, the horse, the dog and even the rabbit. He’s getting a bit closer when he visits the ducks but it isn’t until he visits the henhouse that he finally finds the hen and two eggs for his breakfast.

***Flaps***

The flaps in this book are all relevant to the places that Buster visits. There are stable doors and fences to open and hedges to look behind. The final page treats your child to a flap within a flap as inside the door is the hen who then has to be lifted up to find the eggs that it is sitting on.

***The Illustrations***

The drawings in this book are delightful with Buster’s chubby rosy cheeks and cheeky smile greeting us on every page. The colours are bright and there is a simplistic style to the objects that makes it easy for your child to pick out different things without it being too fussy and busy.

***My Thoughts***

This is one of my son’s favourite books and he knows most of it himself so I don’t actually have to read much of it when he gets it out at bedtime. It’s one that I had when my girls were little and despite the age of it, the flaps are all still in place. I think I originally got it from a church sale for 10p.

When I first started reading this to him I would usually read out where Buster went to and my son would then shout out the name of the animal below the flap and I would ask him what noise it made, pointing to the word of the sound as I did so. I felt this was great for teaching him all about animal sounds when he was little and of course like all kids he was excited at being able to get them right.

The next part that he started to remember was the “Oh dear!” part on each page and he then started to point to the words as he said them. These early remembering games are brilliant for encouraging a child to recognise some words as they start to learn to read and my son does recognise some words now if he sees them out with the book.

It is a simple story and the illustrations are beautiful so this rhythmic book won’t easily bore a child. Quite the opposite in fact, if they are anything like my son, who can’t wait to get his hands on this one.


***Other Titles In The Buster Series***

Buster Keeps Warm
Buster Gets Dressed
Buster’s Day
Buster Goes To Playschool
Buster’s Bedtime
Here’s Buster, But Where’s Teddy?
Buster’s Farm
Buster’s Park
Buster’s Zoo
Buster’s Morning
Buster’s Afternoon


***Other Info***

We have the old paperback version of this book but you can still buy it from Tesco for £3.74 even though the price on the back is £4.99. A board book version is available too for the same price if your child is younger.

Paperback ISBN No. 0333733517
Board Book ISBN No. 0333781392

Summary: Learn animal sounds as you go