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For Email Jesus @ Bethlehem: 'Lively without being irreverent.' - The Bookseller, 'A thoughtful and heartfelt survey.' - TES, 'Just what the modern child should have' - Marianne Adey, Co-Ordinator Children's Book Award (. )
'...good fun.' (Books for Keeps )
'Youngsters who know their fairy tales should have great fun mixing and matching them.'
(The Children's Bookseller )'For very small children, no amount of visionary artwork can compete with the fun of lifting flaps. My son, aged three and a half, loved Hilary Robinson and Nick Sharratt's Mixed Up Fairy Tales'.
(stephanie merrett - observer )Classic fairy stories have been re-told often but none so entertaining and unusual as Mixed Up Fairy Tales. Author Hilary Robinson and illustrator Nick Sharratt have created a classic fairy story book, but with an ingenious and captivating twist. Anyone, young or old, with an ounce of imagination and partial to fairy tales will love this book.
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'...good fun.' (Books for Keeps )
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This fantastic split page book allows the reader to mix and match different combinations of fairy tales with hilarious results. What would happen if Goldilocks had two horrid stepsisters and fell asleep for a hundred years? Would she be woken by a hungry wolf or Little Red Riding Hood's Granny? (20051001)
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147 of 148 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is very cleverly done. It's so clever it seems terrifically simple. There are a dozen fairy tales, all of which you'd expect a four year old to be familiar with, stripped down to a single longish sentence of four components which can then be mixed an matched in the time-honoured way that's often used to create mixed up animals. For example: the Ugly duckling.. is scratched by a spinning wheel, then falls asleep in baby bears bed after eating... Red Riding Hood's granny. The children love it because they're meddling with and subverting stories they know and it is great fun for the parent too. Also, as the words are fairly simple, a beginning reader can do it themselves and is inspired to keep on doing it. As you'd expect from Nick Sharratt, the illustrations are straightforward and appealing. You just can't go wrong! If you like this, look out too for 'You Choose' which is another great Sharrat classic which is also an inspiring fun book for this age group.
79 of 81 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A fantastic book that takes well know fairy tales and allows you to mix them up. It has kept my kids, (a boy aged 5 and a girl aged 9) amused for hours - not to mention their parents. It is an excellent book for encouraging beginner or reluctant readers as it allows them to choose what they want to read, and then delivers it in short phases, with good picture clues. An example.. Jack...grew and grew to the size of a house...and dreamt about marrying...Little Red Riding Hood's Granny. I will be buying a stack of these books as they will make excellent birthday presents!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
This got my 3 1/2 year old laughing in delight at the silly results of his page choices. He would not let me put it down, and though I had initialy bought it as a present for someone else, i will have to buy another copy. He was thrilled to know which stories the pages came from, and mixing them up brought him great entertainment. A big hit.
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I took this into a Reception classroom last week and they made me show it to them every day whilst falling about laughing. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Ms. N. D. Merriman
Full of fun for the whole family
This is a wonderful creative book for children to assist in their imagination.
I bought this for my niece when she was just two and half, she enjoyed turning the... Read more
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I have bought this for my 4 year old as an easter gift (there's only so much chocolate a child can eat), consequently she hasnt seen it yet but it had me giggling and I'm... Read more
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super
I got this as an extra resource as my class are doing a Fairyland/fairytale topic and we've read a range of different fairy tales. Read more
Published 1 month ago by purplebee
Fantastic and brilliant
I was given this book as a present when it was originally published in 2004, the concept is fantastic and is a sequel to Magical Mix ups (formally Spells and Smells. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Miss C. M. Johnson
Disappointed
Bought this for our 5 year old daughter on the strength of the many 5 star reviews. But as is generally the case with the retelling of classic stories the modern updated version... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Just Your Average Reviewer
Still having a great time with it!
I purchased this book about a month ago and decided to wait a little before writing a review. I thought that the novelty of it might have worn off by now. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Fot K. Koutsogianni
Loved by Year 2
My Year 2 Class love Mixed up Fairy tales, all the children have enjoyed reading the book, and it has proved so popular I have just purchased another copy for the class.
Published 3 months ago by Diane
just brilliant!
my girls - and the adults too!! - just love this book. you can do so many different stories!!! really good fun!!!
Published 4 months ago by Jen
Mixed up fairy tales
This is for my granddaughter as one of her stocking fillers for christmas. I know that she will enjoy it. It was delivered when they said it would be and was in perfect condition.
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