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Mum is crazy about all things spotty, from spotty clothes and spotty wallpaper to spotty games like dominoes. Dad loves stripes, stripy suits, stripy ties and stripy humbug sweets. No wonder they make their son laugh, but they think that he's funny in his grey patternless clothes. When they go to the safari park, Mum goes wild about the big cats, while Dad enthuses over the zebras. But, as the last spread reveals, their son is even more obsessive about elephants! Packed with patterns of stripes and spots, this book also contains a clue on each spread as to the nature of the little boy's obsession, from a pink elephant toothbrush holder in the bathroom to a bun in the cafe! Nick Sharratt's children's books include illustrations for "One by One"; "Isn't it Time?"; "Crazy ABC" and "Little and Big" in The Little Learning Library by Judy Hindley, as well as three verse anthologies edited by Jill Bennett and the cover of the award-winning novel "Tracy Beaker".

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Spots and stripes and lots of colour, 1 Jan 2007 By  MacCruiskeen (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews In this story the little boy's mother likes everything spotty and his father likes everything stripy. The text is pretty minimal - though entertaining - with just one or two simple sentences per page serving to introduce the marvellous, colourful illustrations. These allow for lots of parent-child interaction and provide a great way of learning about patterns and colours. Another benefit of the book is that it shows young children that people can like different things and still be happy.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   a great 'read it together' book, 16 May 2007 By  Lozza "jamesandlorraine2" (Bucks, UK) - See all my reviews This review is from: My Mum and Dad Make Me Laugh (Paperback) I got this book from our local library and my daughter loved it so much that we had to buy it. It's a great short story about a family who all like different things, the pictures are vibrant and match the story perfectly. It's a lovely book to read together and we spend alot of time looking at the pictures and talking about why they are different. It's been a regular story in our house since we bought it, my daughter knows the story word for word and took it her nursery the other day and read it to her class mates!!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Good book for the foundation stage., 27 Sep 2005 By A Customer This review is from: My Mum and Dad Make Me Laugh (Paperback) This book is highly amusing (Mum only likes spots and Dad only stripes). It is a good book to share with a group of young children. They can point out all the patterns and look at patterns in the imediate environment. I have used it before with 3 and 4 year olds in a nursery and we made a patterns display and did many activities on patterns.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 3 customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews