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 Rattletrap Car - Phyllis Root
 Rattletrap Car - Phyllis Root ... rattletrap car. The rattletrap car doesn't go fast and it doesn't go far - and when a family set off to the lake in it one hot day it soon starts to fall apart. But...lumpety bumpety, a beach ball replaces the wheel; wappity bappity, a surfboard replaces the floor; a thermos of razzleberry dazzleberry snazzleberry fizz does for the petrol tank...All stuck on with chocolate marshamallow fudge delight! The rattletrap car reaches the lake, and takes the family safely - if noisily - home again.Newest Review: ... Dad, however, surveys their rattletrap car and is concerned that 'it doesn't go fast and it doesn't go far'. The children ... more ... aren't taking no for an answer, however, although Junie and Jakie are polite enough to say 'Please, please, please!' Baby just cries out 'Go!'
Dad knows he must give it a try, so he packs the aforementioned fizz and fudge delight. Junie brings her enormous beach-ball, and Jakie a surf-board that's about twice as long as he is tall. Baby naturally has a 'three-speed, wind-up, paddle-wheel boat'.
As their journey begins, we are treated to a feast of onomatopoeia: 'Clinkety clankety bing bang pop!' Then disaster number o...more |
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Rattletrap Car - Phyllis Root: Wappity bappity bing bang pop! (784 words)
by - written on 18/04/08 (Very useful, 108 readings)
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As 2008 is the National Year of Reading, I thought I should look for some different books to read aloud at the nursery where I work. I found just the book to inspire me at my local library: Rattletrap Car, by Phyllis Root, illustrated by Jill Barton. Why has it taken me so long to discover this wonderful book? What if I never had? My experience of the English language would have been so much the poorer. How have I been working with young children for so long and not known of the existence of razzleberry dazzleberry snazzleberry fizz? Thankfully now I do, and I also understand to what uses chocolate marshmallow fudge delight can be put. The story of ... Read the complete review
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