Review: Pants

Pants

Written by Giles Andreae

Illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Publication date: 2002

Publisher: David Fickling Books

ISBN: 978-0-385-61039-1

Summary/Back cover:

Before you know it, this book will have you singing and dancing and waving your knickers in the air! It’s a celebration of PANTS – for everyone who wears them… and everyone who doesn’t!

Review:

Both my 2.5 year old and my 10 month old adore this book!  Being another Giles Andreae book, I was immediately drawn to it, and although it has his Purple Ronnie style humour in it, the style of writing is more like Dr Seuss’ Foot Book – example: 

Small pants, big pants, giant frilly pig pants

New pants, blue pants, one, two, three

Rich pants, poor pants, swinging on the door pants

How many more pants can you see?

- Pants, by Giles Andreae

Small feet, big feet, Here come pig feet.

His feet, her feet, Fuzzy fur feet

In the house and on the street,

how many, many feet you meet.

- The Foot Book, by Dr Seuss

This doesn't detract from the book at all - it just keeps making me think we're reading Dr Seuss, rather than Andreae!  This particular version of the book we have is a cardboard book, so my 2.5 year old has taken it to bed with him on several evening, and it’s lasted the test of time!  Gorgeous pictures, funny due to the content (underwear!), and great rhymes.

My rating: 4.5 out of 5

Review written by Bronwyn