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The Day The Gogglynipper Escaped by James McKnight and Mark Chambers (view source)
Revision as of 11:08, 19 November 2011
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With lots of giggles in store as Diggle begins to find out quite a lot about what Gogglynippers like and don't like, this is a terrific bedtime story with some proper laugh aloud moments (and not just from the enthralled four year old, either!), with enchanting illustrations (that put me very much in mind of Channel 5's ''The Little Princess'') and plenty of mentions of poo and stinky socks which as any parent knows, is a great comedic recipe really for your average pre-schooler!
At a read time of approximately 4 to 5 minutes (depending really on how long you spend on the first couple of pages that have these delightful ''Ricky Gervais-esque 'Flanimals''' type monster biographies) it makes it an ideal pre-sleep settler. Further, and most importantly, it rather skillfully navigates the ''monsters-are-just-pretend-and-not-at-all-scary; look-and-see-for-yourself'' conversation that one is steers one's way around, now the nights are drawing in and particularly immediately post-Hallowe'en.
So to summarise, this book is terrific and I'm quite keen to discover some of the other monster adventures going on in and around Farmer McDoogle's farm. I can't help but recommend it to you because we really laughed and simply loved it.