"A twisted fairytale that teaches punctuation with a smile."
This charming picture book is an Eats, Shoots and Leaves for children who are beginning to learn the meaning and usage of the four main punctuation marks. Here the author has invented them as characters in their own right and they come to the rescue of Red Hoodie, who has written a story about her and her Gran and a wolf, but it has all gone wrong!
The punctuation characters spring into action to help her story make sense. But she doesn’t know who they are and so the full stop, the exclamation mark ‘an excitable guy’, the question mark and what Red Hoodie thinks is a ‘cute and curly’ comma ( ‘don’t call me that.
I’m a clever comma and I’m in charge here’). The whimsical pictures (Granny in a bag because of a missing full stop!) to illustrate the meaning that Red has mistakenly written, will raise lots of laughs.
This is a very different sort of twisted fairy tale that will serve a useful purpose as well as to entertain. I can see older children wanting to rewrite other fairy tales in the same style to prove how well they know their punctuation.
In Don’t Eat Granny, Red Hoodie is trying to write a story about herself, her granny and a wolf along the lines of the well-known story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.
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In Don’t Eat Granny, Red Hoodie is trying to write a story about herself, her granny and a wolf along the lines of the well-known story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Red Hoodie's story is written in her own handwriting but there are punctuation mistakes and suddenly her sentences take on a different meaning.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Don't Eat Granny and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-8 years old
Don't Eat Granny features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Featured Books for 7+ readers, Books for Teachers, Recommendations, Funny, Traditional Tales, Grammar, Spelling & Literature, Children’s picture books, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, Educational material, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts
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Don't Eat Granny was written by Gillian McClure and published by Plaister Press
Don't Eat Granny has 32 pages
£7.19, reduced from £7.99. In Stock.
