The Fidgety Itch
Written by Lucy Davey
Illustrated by Katz Cowley
Publisher: Scholastic New Zealand
ISBN: 978-1-86943-967-5
Summary/Back cover:
‘Twas only a niggle… the teensiest titch… but that fidgety feeling grew to an ITCH!
When you have an itch that you just can’t scratch, it’s great to have somebody to do it for you. But what do you do when you’re the last in the scratching queue?
Review:
This book appealed to me immediately because of the illustrator - Katz Cowley has done the illustrations for The Wonky Donkey and Willbee the Bumblebee, both of which are well-loved books in this house.
And this book is just as appealing - with a gorgeous rhyming storyline from Lucy Davey, this tale about a mouse that gets an itch is a great book for teaching children how to help other people out with their problems - for they might need help with their own problem soon enough!
My 3.5 year old was highly amused to see what was causing the itch on each page (a little mosquito, although he is never mentioned in the story itself), and wondered whether the animals getting the itch knew what was causing it. The story gets more and more complicated by the end, as more and more animals need a scratch, but it was easy for the kids to follow along to, and 'guess' who was joining the queue next.
A lovely funny story, with the added bonus of that 'team-work' or 'help out others' tale threaded through it.
My rating: 4.2 out of 5
Review written by Bronwyn
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