Monday, October 10, 2011

Review: Incy Wincy Spider and Friends


Incy Wincy Spider and Friends
Illustrated by the Miles Kelly Artwork Bank

Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Miles Kelly Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-84810-413-6

Summary/Back cover:
This collection of best-loved nursery rhymes also includes fairytales and first poems.  Children will love reading about Incy Wincy Spider, Old Mother Hubbard and Simple Simon as they enjoy the beautiful illustrations.

Review:
This is a lovely collection of traditional nursery rhymes and fairy tales - it has been illustrated by a number of different people, so the style of pictures changes from page to page.  This is not off-putting though, as the pictures are all very bright and appealing.

The biggest gripe I have about this book is that the longer stories (The Ugly Duckling, and Little Red Riding Hood) are interspersed with the shorter rhymes - I would have preferred to have them at the end of the book, separately, as it broke the rhythm of reading through the rhymes, to suddenly have a few pages of longer story.

However, the stories are well known, and the rhymes are mostly well known - there's a couple there that I hadn't heard of before - and both my 1 and 3 year olds enjoy reading this book.  Incy Wincy is the most requested rhyme, probably because of the beautiful picture of the spider on the front cover!

My rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Review written by Bronwyn

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