Splosh! - Mick Inkpen

Splosh is written and illustrated by Mick Inkpen. Splosh is a book about Kipper and his adventures outside, with his blue and white stripy umbrella and some little friends on a rainy day. Kipper is a dog, a very cute loveable dog. Kipper is light and dark brown with a white tummy, nose and paws. It is raining so Kipper puts up his umbrella. Kipper jumps in a puddle then he hears and sees the lightning and thunder 'Flash!' 'Boom!'. On his walk he sees a hedgehog with rain water dripping off his little nose and Kipper invites him under his umbrella. Next he sees three little rabbits hopping and squelching. They all get under ...

Splosh! One of the books in the Kipper series, this will almost certainly appeal to very young children, featuring as it does the ever loveable Kipper, that walking, talking, umbrella carrying little chap! I say umbrella carrying because we meet Kipper on the first page, holding his umbrella with the rain going "Splash!" on the aforementioned umbrella. We are introduced therefore immediately to the format of the book. Each page starts with a sound...splash; splosh; flash; drip, drip, drip; hop squelch;a a a tishoo;slop slap. Great words, which children will easily give an action to. The sound words are in inverted commas, and ...