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 Thud! - Nick Butterworth
 Thud! - Nick Butterworth ... / Book is published 1998-06-01 by Picture LionsNewest Review: ... they are in for a surprise: the monster is, in fact, the mother of the Ugly Beast and the Ugly Beast - actually he has a ... more ... name, quite a nice one - is called Raymond.
Thud is a delight: the pictures and text are both great and work together really well, and the story maintains interest and excited suspense to the very end (and beyond!).
The repeated onomatopoeic THUDS are a great opportunity to join in; there is both some dialogue for variety and repetition so familiar in picture books. Preschoolers aged roughly three to five are probably the most typical audience for Thud and it works very well read aloud, but it contains enough st...more |
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Thud! - Nick Butterworth: Monsters Are Coming (494 words)
by - written on 05/12/08 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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'This is terrible!' he wailed 'First the Ugly Beast and now a monster.' Basil the Bushbaby cannot get any rest, first disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious creature everybody in the forest decided to call the Ugly Beast, and now the earth shakes from a mighty thuds of a truly humongous monster. Basil decides that the monster has to be got rid of, but nobody seems to be willing to help: Spike the Porcupine can do cats and dogs, but not monsters, Piers the warthog is too beautiful and Ralph the lion has a sore throat. Even the Ugly Beast doesn't feel able to help. But when all animals band together to face the monster, they are in for a surprise: the monster ... Read the complete review
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