Home > Books & Magazines > Printed Book >

Once Upon a Time - John Prater

Description: ISBN 0744536901 / Author: John Prater / Genre: Junior Books / Publisher: Walker Books Ltd / The day is really rather dull for a little ... more

Once Upon a Time - John Prater ... boy in the middle of the country with just Mum and the cat for company. Nothing happens, no one comes by ...so he says, anyway. - But the pictures tell a very different story! There are the Three Bears and Goldilocks; The Three Little Pigs building their houses; Little Red Riding Hood and a Big Bad Wolf; a witch flying about on a broomstick; Humpty Dumpty climbing up on to a wall; a giant stamping about the countryside; a cat and a fiddle and a cow jumping over the moon. All around the little boy exciting things are happening - but at the end of the day, the little boy yawns and tells his father, "Nothing much happened round here today"! Vivian French's books include the fiction titles "Zenobia and Mouse", "Under the Moon" and "Tillie McGillie's Fantastical Chair" the picture books "Princess Primrose", "Lazy Jack" (1995) and "A Song for Little Toad" (1995) and the Read and Wonder books "The Apple Trees", "Spider Watching" and "Caterpiller Caterpiller" (shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award). John Prater is the author and illustrator of "On Friday Something Funny Happened" which was runner-up for The Mother Goose Award, "No, said Joe" an

Newest Review: ... little pigs starting to make their houses. On the left hand side baby bear comes running from his cottage with Father Bear, ... more

... holding a broken chair. Goldilocks has already run past on page 1. As we go through the book, with the text describing the little boys day, the pictures are describing much more and we see Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf, a giant, Humpty Dumpty, a witch and the cow jumping over the moon. Only a little more of each story is revealed as each page is turned and it is fun as my children look around and spot the next part of each well loved story. The illustrations are wonderful as well and each page is a double s...more

Price Comparison for Once Upon a Time - John Prater

Gunfight At The OK Corral/Hud/Once Upon ATime In The West [DVD] Gunfight At The OK Corral Novelist Leon Uris wrote the script for ... Last Update 11.11.2009 05:41	£ 7.78	Free! within 24 hours
Janet and John Series: Extension Rdrs.: OnceUpon a Time Board book, Nisbet Last Update 11.11.2009 05:41	£ 24.42
Janet And John : Once Upon A Time Paperback, James Nisbet & Co Ltd Last Update 11.11.2009 05:41	£ 5.25
Once Upon a Time: Janet & John: ExtensionRdrs.: Once Upon a Time Pages: 128, Edition: Janet & John extension readers, Paperback, J ... Last Update 11.11.2009 05:41	£ 1.65

Read Reviews for Once Upon a Time - John Prater

Once Upon a Time - John Prater: So much to see - So much to do! (542 words)
by - written on 29/02/08 (Very useful, 76 readings)
Rating:

Once Upon a Time is such a fabulous book for encouraging talk and conversation with your child. It starts with a little boy in his house just waking up. The main interest in the book is what is happening outside his house however and there is more and more to see on each page as you go through the book. The text is written in little poems and it describes what is happening with the little boy and his family, like his father going to work for instance and him having lunch. However on each page there are lots of extra little things happening in the area around his house and garden. On the first few pages we begin to see the three little pigs starting ... Read the complete review