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Wave the Flag and Blow the Whistle by Ronda Armitage and Andrew Gordon (view source)
Revision as of 13:14, 21 February 2012
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There are rhythmic phrases, and rhymes, but it doesn't seem to have a specific structure or flow and the patterns change from page to page making it, I felt, rather awkward to read at times. Still, the story itself is a great concept. I love travelling by train with my daughter and it's always exciting to see all the action on the station platform, to watch the world pass by through a train window, and to feel excited and a little bit scared as the train goes into a tunnel!
Whilst on the train the little boy makes friends with a little girl, and his grandad befriends his her grandma. There's a rather nice montage of what the four of them get up to once they finally reach Blueberry Hill including the requisite British weather rainy moment that spoils the picnic! All of the illustrations are lovely really, nice hand-drawn sketches and with lots of things to look at and talk about.
I'm sure little fans of train travel will thoroughly enjoy discussing it together. I felt it was something I wouldn't be overly keen to read repeatedly, hence the 'maybe' suggestion for buying it, but certainly borrow it and give it a try to see what you think!