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Yum! A Fruit Jellyphant! Pooh! A Rude Smelliphant! Wow! A Magic Spellaphant! Who'll be your favourite elephant? Pull the tabs and lift the flaps on this elephantastic parade!
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Elephant Wellyphant is not my usual literary fare. I don't make a habit of hanging around in the children's section, but as a librarian, wandering in occasionally is an occupational hazard. I was shown a copy of Elephant Wellyphant by a colleague a few days ago and it blew my mind. This book takes one joke and mercilessly beats you around the head with it. There is no escape.
The title explains the main premise. It introduces the notion of an elephant and then proceeds to impart variations upon this theme. Wellyphant for example is an elephant in wellies. The deviation from the original concept of elephant grows as the book progresses, slowly testing ones facility to trust in these improbable elephantile occupations. The ordering is magnificent, and the flow is unbroken. I'd love to splurge out more examples of the humour of this book, but it would be a crime to impart any more as every page and every word is dynamite.
The hard hitting, straight to the point text is complemented with the glaring, over the top illustrations. Every elephant is rendered in bold colours leaving no room for analysis or interpretation beyond the very obvious. The total effect is like staring at the sun for too long, the incandescent brightness is blinding as every joke strikes home.
The magical purity of Elephant Wellyphant is no doubt lost on children, but not on me Nick Sharratt, not on me.
The title explains the main premise. It introduces the notion of an elephant and then proceeds to impart variations upon this theme. Wellyphant for example is an elephant in wellies. The deviation from the original concept of elephant grows as the book progresses, slowly testing ones facility to trust in these improbable elephantile occupations. The ordering is magnificent, and the flow is unbroken. I'd love to splurge out more examples of the humour of this book, but it would be a crime to impart any more as every page and every word is dynamite.
The hard hitting, straight to the point text is complemented with the glaring, over the top illustrations. Every elephant is rendered in bold colours leaving no room for analysis or interpretation beyond the very obvious. The total effect is like staring at the sun for too long, the incandescent brightness is blinding as every joke strikes home.
The magical purity of Elephant Wellyphant is no doubt lost on children, but not on me Nick Sharratt, not on me.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a brilliant book, with wonderful illustrations and a fantastic sense of humour at work. A very clever book, beautifully crafted and produced.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a lovely starter book for babies and toddlers with its tough, tear-resistant pages. There's no story as such, just a daft elephant on every page, and turning over the page gives a different bold bright look with eye catching colours and the simple strong drawings at which Nick Sharratt excels. I particularly like the Unwelliphant, who is green with red spots and looks very sorry for himself, and the hiding-in-the-cellarphant where you just see eyes on a black background. There are inventive flaps particularly for the chocolate caramel elephant which you unwrap like a sweet, for the story-tellerphant's bedtime book and for the transformation of a plain cinderellaphant into to a sparkly-princess. There's also a couple of pull the tab elephants and my older children (5&6) love the fortune-tellerphant's spinning arrow which gives future career direction. A simple idea, well-produced and perfectly pitched to appeal to the 1-4s. If you like this, you must also get Pants and More Pants which is same principle with more text.
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A lovely book which encourages children to rhyme
This book is very interactive (with pop ups etc) and there's lots of lovely illustrations to look at. Read more
Published 6 months ago by GemFloss
Rude Smellyphant?
Lovely piture book, suitable for kids 2-8 years old. My kids love it, the only gripe being that as it is a pop up book, it rips easily, and now some of the bits are missing in our... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Puzzle crazy
Great fun!!!
A favourite already in our household. My children love to pull / lift the flaps and join in with the rhyming verse.
Published 9 months ago by smiler
Kids loved it, but it was in tatters after a week
The kids loved it, especially the little one (20 months old). The older one liked showing his brother the book. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Natasha
fantastiphant
Absolutely love this book. My young daughter and me really enjoyed reading it - I found it amusing and my daughter liked the excellent illustrations and interractive features.
Published 11 months ago by aethelred
Phantastic
This book is so clever but so simple, I love it and hope my daughter will love it as she learns to read. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Squeak
What a tonic!
This book, along with 'Zoopermarket', 'Octopus, Socktopus' and 'Don't put your Finger in the Jelly Nelly' proved just the thing to cheer up a little boy with chickenpox - he... Read more
Published 14 months ago by S. Walsgrove
Hilarious!!
The whole family love this book-its ingenious!! I know theres another similar one about Octopusis which i will buy too!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Published 20 months ago by S. Renshaw
not just for toddlers
my daughters are 5 and nearly 7 and they too love this book, i've just bought it for both my nieces, and i would highly recommend it to anyone.
Published on 3 Mar 2010 by AREG
a really funny book
my daughter is 4 and has lots of nick sharatts books.
this is one of his funniest, it has flaps and bold pictures very good
this is one of his funniest, it has flaps and bold pictures very good
Published on 31 Jan 2010 by J. K. Jones
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