Wobble Bear Says Yellow - Ian Whybrow

I am very lucky to have a toddler that loves books. She has just turned two years old and is learning her colours. A couple of months ago, the only colour she would say was yellow. I always found this quite funny as the word yellow is quite a difficult one for little ones to grasp. Thinking back to when my older daughter was small it was the other way around and she would say every colour but yellow. The frustrations that my partner and mother in law encountered whilst trying to get her to say a colour other than yellow was quite amusing to watch. I knew she would grasp the other colours when she was ready, so I ignored all the frequent shouting of ...  Read the complete review

***Background*** Ian Whybrow is well known for writing about Harry and His Bucketful of Dinosaurs and also for the Little Wolf series, both of which have been made into television programmes. Caroline Jayne Church has illustrated a wide variety of books for other authors but also writes some books herself too. ***The Story*** The story begins, “Wobble Bear was bouncing. (He was bouncing on the bed.) His mummy caught him in a towel And this is what she said: Now listen to this colour, Try to fix it in your head – The colour of this towel is RED, RED, RED! Now, ...  Read the complete review