This isn’t just a book – it’s a GAME in a book that entices even the most reluctant of readers! One of Beanstalk’s reading helpers was working with a child who wanted to read it again and again – they couldn’t figure out how the magic worked! It involves the reader carrying out different tasks in order for the pages to turn. It can be a lot of fun to read together and carry out the ‘instructions’ with a child and can provide endless enjoyment over and over again!
This books uses spells as a fun way of telling stories. This book is great to encourage children to write down or think of their own funny spells to turn their siblings into toads! The book also mixes up lots of different scenarios, another exercise you can carry out with your child. Making them mix up well-known stories or nursery rhymes, such as Humpty Dumpty with ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’.
This was read aloud to Beanstalk staff at a recent conference and there were people crying with laughter! A wonderfully funny rhyming book filled with plenty of tongue twisters which children and adults will love trying to read out loud together. Practice also makes perfect with this and often children will refine their technique first before their reading helper. A great book for adults as well as it shows you how many words rhyme with ‘otter’!
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Would you recommend the book for use in primary schools?
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