- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Walker Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0744552443
- ISBN-13: 978-0744552447
- Product Dimensions: 26 x 21.4 x 0.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,730,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A delight... each intriguing spread adding to the joke and hinting at what's to come." Books for Keeps"
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Spot all your favourite nursery story characters in this entertaining rhyming tale!
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This book is one of the best picture books I have ever encountered. At a glance it appears to have just a simple rhyming text but once the pictures are explored and the fairy tale characters spotted a whole new book emerges. The stone by the stream isn't what it first appears to be and soon we see the three bears, the gingerbread man and a witch who is not really very good at spells.My four year old will read this book for hours and has a wonderful time making up stories about the characters and their antics. If your child has a sense of humour and an eye for picture detail then this is the book for them.
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Once Upon a Picnic
29 July 2010
Format:Hardcover
ISBN 1564028100 - Printed in Hong Kong (boo hiss to the Massachusetts publisher, Candlewick Press, for the outsourcing). Amazon has the book listed for ages 4 to 8, the book itself doesn't say, but I'd personally guess around ages 2 to 5, for a couple reasons.
A boy and his parents picnic alongside a stream. The boy points out that there's not much to do or see and seems momentarily bored before the action begins to pick up. The Three Bears arrive with their own picnic basket, a witch peers from a doorway, a giant is seen striding across the landscape and a billy goat is heading toward a bridge. For the remainder of the story, right up until the family heads home, the stories of various classic childrens' book characters unfold.
The text, by author Vivian French, is worth ignoring, really. It's limited and it's in awkward rhymes, nothing special. John Prater, the illustrator, is also the man behind the concept of the book, a fact that seems obvious when you look at it. The illustrations are 95% of the book, while the text could, for the most part, not exist for all it matters. Prater and French are also the creative team on Once Upon a Time (Read and Share), a similar tale. The images here are watercolors, full of fun details, but not so busy that the important bits get buried. The main reason that I think the book is best suited to the two to five year old crowd is that two year olds are just about the right age to be able to begin catching on to the sometimes subtle introduction of nursery rhyme characters, while six year olds are just about getting over nursery rhymes completely.
- AnnaLovesBooks
A boy and his parents picnic alongside a stream. The boy points out that there's not much to do or see and seems momentarily bored before the action begins to pick up. The Three Bears arrive with their own picnic basket, a witch peers from a doorway, a giant is seen striding across the landscape and a billy goat is heading toward a bridge. For the remainder of the story, right up until the family heads home, the stories of various classic childrens' book characters unfold.
The text, by author Vivian French, is worth ignoring, really. It's limited and it's in awkward rhymes, nothing special. John Prater, the illustrator, is also the man behind the concept of the book, a fact that seems obvious when you look at it. The illustrations are 95% of the book, while the text could, for the most part, not exist for all it matters. Prater and French are also the creative team on Once Upon a Time (Read and Share), a similar tale. The images here are watercolors, full of fun details, but not so busy that the important bits get buried. The main reason that I think the book is best suited to the two to five year old crowd is that two year olds are just about the right age to be able to begin catching on to the sometimes subtle introduction of nursery rhyme characters, while six year olds are just about getting over nursery rhymes completely.
- AnnaLovesBooks
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