Itch Scritch Scratch

LoveReading4Kids Says

One of our Dyslexia Friendly Books of the Year 2014 - A Dyslexia Friendly Picture Book for Parent and Child   With wit and brio this picture book captures the all-too-familiar horror of a nit infestation. A bouncy rhyming text spares no detail of the revolting behaviour of nits themselves and of the millions of little lice they lay in unsuspecting children’s hair. Within the story, the life cycle of nits and their lousy offspring, the varied and frequently extreme ways of getting rid of them and the only possible redeeming feature of having them are cleverly revealed. With a rhyming text that trips off the tongue, this laugh-out-loud picture book is perfect for all the family with an easy-read font.  You may know more about nits than you want by the end of the book!

Publisher Barrington Stoke was inspired to create the Picture Squirrel Books titles after meeting a man with dyslexia at a book event.  “We were approached by a gentleman who told us that it broke his heart that he couldn’t read to his child because of his dyslexia,” M.D. Mairi Kidd told The Bookseller. “So we talked to Michael Morpurgo, who we were already working with on low text books [textbooks that use a limited number of words]."  The layout of picture books can be difficult for adults with dyslexia as the language and typeface are often very varied, the text can be cut into small chunks or is sometimes spun around a picture, which can make a book tricky if you don’t have good reading skills. Barrington Stoke worked with the authors and illustrators to ensure that the books are suitable for dyslexic readers and thereby helping more families grow a love of reading.

On the Picture Squirrels...Michael Morpurgo says: “I was immediately taken with the idea of the Picture Squirrel books, a picture book list that dyslexic parents and less confident readers can read with their
children too.”

In addition to our Lovereading expert opinion for Itch Scritch Scratch a small number of members were lucky enough to be invited to review this title. Here's a taster....'It was a joy not to have to struggle through a book!  Elliot says thank you for helping him read proper books and so does his Mummy!'  Elliot Bateman and his mummy.

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