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Carried Away With the Carnival by Ed Boxall (view source)
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The text is simple and it's all delivered in a font that the aspiring reader will be able to handle. There's not too much to read on any one page and although some of the vocabulary is challenging (as it should be) there are plenty of hints on the page to help. It's a book which will be returned to, time and time again.
Of course, the text delivers the story but (as always) Ed Boxall's [[The Old Woman from Friuli by Ghillian Potts and Ed Boxall|images ]] bring the story to life. The colours are vivid and exciting - you'll feel yourself drawn into the carnival but when the boy gets lost, the grey dreariness of the streets brings home how he is feeling. There's one picture where an empty bottle has been left next to a lamp post. It's perfect.
At 48 pages the book is rather longer than the usual picture book but the length is perfect and I'd like to thank the publisher for sending a copy to the Bookbag.