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Mog and Owl are hungry, so Meg makes a spell. It goes wrong and they all go to bed without any supper, but Mog and Owl are still hungry . . .
The bestselling Meg and Mog stories have been casting a unique spell for more than thirty-five years. They are perfect for sharing or reading alone and this new adventure has all the simplicity and graphic brilliance of the original.
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Helen Nicoll has worked with Jan Pienkowski for over forty years, first at the BBC and then on the Meg and Mog stories. She owned and ran the audio company Cover to Cover for many years. Helen lives in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Jan Pienkowski is a celebrated illustrator of children's books. He has won the Greenaway Medal twice - for his illustration of Joan Aiken's The Kingdom Under the Sea and for Haunted House. Jan lives in London.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
My daughter was very upset after we read this that the cover bears no resemblance to what actually happens in the story. The title hardly does either! Meg "going to bed" is a passing mention and it's more about Mog and Owl catching their dinner when the inept Meg fails to feed them their supper.
A charming story as always, but something is missing from this one that the others all have, it left me a bit cold to be honest. Daughter seems to love it though.
A charming story as always, but something is missing from this one that the others all have, it left me a bit cold to be honest. Daughter seems to love it though.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
With Halloween not far off the timing couldn't have been better for the release of the first new Meg and Mog book in four years. Meg Goes to Bed is a worthy addition to the collection. Although the story is perhaps not quite as satisfying as Meg at Sea, Mog's Missing or Meg's Car, many features that you would want to find in a quintessential Meg and Mog story are here to delight in.
There is an apparently simple scenario - Meg, Mog and Owl are hungry - but yet disaster still manages to strike. There's a classically illustrated recipe for a spell, followed by the inevitably unintended results when the magic words are incanted. Meg's catch phrase ("Oh dear, oh dear"), Mog and Owl's nigh on obligatory crash landing and the idea that hard work and perseverance rather than the swish of a magic wand will get you what you need all add up to making this a book that my children were thrilled to read and that I was very pleased to add to our collection.
Pie'kowski's bold, graphic design influenced illustrations, with their bright, sheer palette and tone are dramatic and exciting. In Meg Goes to Bed the articulation of the familiar characters, Meg, Mog and Owl is slightly less smooth than in earlier Meg and Mog books, but then I would not expect characters which have been drawn for almost 40 years to be identical today with their first incarnations. Another change from earlier Meg and Mog books is a slight increase in the number of colours used in the illustrations.
An additional joy of reading Meg Goes to Bed was that it made a great early reader for my nearly 6 year old - so don't just by these books for your preschoolers, also think about offering them as reading books to your reception age kids!
There is an apparently simple scenario - Meg, Mog and Owl are hungry - but yet disaster still manages to strike. There's a classically illustrated recipe for a spell, followed by the inevitably unintended results when the magic words are incanted. Meg's catch phrase ("Oh dear, oh dear"), Mog and Owl's nigh on obligatory crash landing and the idea that hard work and perseverance rather than the swish of a magic wand will get you what you need all add up to making this a book that my children were thrilled to read and that I was very pleased to add to our collection.
Pie'kowski's bold, graphic design influenced illustrations, with their bright, sheer palette and tone are dramatic and exciting. In Meg Goes to Bed the articulation of the familiar characters, Meg, Mog and Owl is slightly less smooth than in earlier Meg and Mog books, but then I would not expect characters which have been drawn for almost 40 years to be identical today with their first incarnations. Another change from earlier Meg and Mog books is a slight increase in the number of colours used in the illustrations.
An additional joy of reading Meg Goes to Bed was that it made a great early reader for my nearly 6 year old - so don't just by these books for your preschoolers, also think about offering them as reading books to your reception age kids!
My son loves it every time Meg makes something explode, every time someone gets the cauldron on their head and generally when things go bang and clang. All the Meg and Mog stories are brilliantly original, but the bangs and clangs make them very recognizable and link them all together.
I wrote translations for the spells in pencil between the lines, so that I don't have to make them up every time I read the book to my son, which is about 12 times per day.
I wrote translations for the spells in pencil between the lines, so that I don't have to make them up every time I read the book to my son, which is about 12 times per day.
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