Not so Yummy Scrummy!! (Yummy Scrummy - Paul Harrison)

Member Name: tb4ms

Product:	Yummy Scrummy - Paul Harrison
Date:	26/02/07 (74 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Bright illustrations, repetitive text.

Disadvantages: Good the first time but children could tire of it!

This is one of a series of books, known as Twister published by Evans Brothers Ltd.

- The Book -

It is all about a fly who is hungry and follows the fly throughout his flights looking for different kinds of food. In his flying around he finds and lands on a variety of foodstuffs: pizza, chips, dog food, crisps, doughnuts etc. Each time saying 'Mmmm _____. Yummy Scrummy!'

The book ends with a frog catching the fly 'Thwap!' 'Yummy Scrummy!'

- Format, Style and Illustrations -

As you can probably tell from the explanation above, this is an extremely simple book with limited text. It is therefore ideal for pre-school children who can join in and even re-tell the story after the first or second reading.

The children that I have read this to find it amusing when the fly burps towards the middle of his over-indulgence!

The illustrations are very bright and bold with the fly tucking in to a different course on each page.

On reading the book we started talking about how it is important to try to cover up your food from flies as so many germs can be passed on, this is largely brought to light when the fly goes from the dog food in the bowl straight on to the crisps.
The book also shows how frogs catch their prey with a flick of their tongue!

- Other books in the Twisters series -
* Not-so-silly sausage
* Nick's Birthday
* Out went Sam
* Squelch!
* Sally sails the sea

- Price -

The paperback retails at £3.99 but is available from amazon for just 75p.
The hardcover version is £8.99 but again is available from amazon from £7.19 (just watch out for postage charges).

- My Verdict -

This is an enjoyable book but in my experience it doesn't have the 'staying power' of a lot of other children's books that I have read, i.e. children may tire of it after a few readings and once they commit it to memory and have read it back to you a few times. It certainly has it's uses but not one to rush out and buy and definitely not worth paying £8.99 for the hardcover! I picked mine up in a charity shop for 50p when we were looking at Minibeasts but I would have felt robbed, had I paid £3.99!

Summary: A good read but not worth the RRP, hunt for cheaper copies of the book.