is a lovely story that teaches youngsters the dangers of listening to people who promise you things that are too good to be true, The artwork is bold and striking, and the story is told in a delightful rhyme that keeps my toddler gripped from beginning to end, My Little girl loves this it's a great story for young children and the edition I have is sparkly which makes it that extra bit special, lovely book I am yet to find a Julia Donaldson book that isn't completely wonderful.
Lydia Monks' illustrations are also so much fun I am also a huge fan of sitelinkWhat the Ladybird Heard, I love that this book seems to subtly acknowledge the cruelty to animals that pervades the circus industry, The Singing Mermaid Did you ever go to Silversands on a sunny summer's day Then perhaps you saw the mermaid who sang in the deep blue bay, Full description A sad tale of an exploited mermaid that ends happily though a little poignantly, in my opinion, My toddler loves the glitter on each page and has enjoyed reading it many times now, Julia Donaldson makes some really lovely books, Gifted the book to myyear old niece on her birthday, She greatly enjoyed it. Read to Alice whilst babysitting, It was quite good actually!! I like prose stories, rhyme stories for children like this one was very enjoyable, I bought this as a Christmas present for myyr old little boy who put it as one of his main things for Christmas, Though the one we got didn't have a free Tshirt, it had an audio disc instead, he loves audio books,
Though he did raise a question to me today "do mermaids always have to be girls" Julia Donaldson is very good at writing the rhyming story and this is as good as her other work.
A mermaid that loves to sing but gets tricked into joining a circus, . . I won't tell you how it ends but it does feature a seagull,
Oh and if you like glitter then this book is for you, : Een mooi met glitter zoveel glitter gevuld prentenboek over een zeemeermin die blijkbaar geen water nodig heeft om te overleven op het land, Ze gaat, met haar niet slimme hoofd, een deal aan met het circus ondanks dat al haar vriendjes heel duidelijk zeggen dat het niet een goed idee
is, maar waarom zou je luisteren, en je mag zelf al raden hoe dat eindigt.
Wel een leuk einde met een hele goede oplossing, kunnen we dit ook aan de andere meerminnen vertellen, Maar ja, die hebben dan weer het hele water is leven ding, dus misschien werkt het toch niet zo goed,
De tekeningen waren best leuk gedaan!
year old loves it has firmly made it to the regular pile for story time,
She loves the embossed and glittery designs on the paper too, scratches and feels them throughout the book, Lovely and delightful rhyming story for me to read and it has pretty, engaging and colourful illustrations for little one, Sweet and a good starting point for talking about animals in circuses It is a wonderful story about a mermaid and her life and her wonderful adventures,.Like the Little Mermaid, this mermaid is a talented singer who draws the attention of a man, This time, it's Sam Sly, the circus owner, He offers her fame and fortune, taking her away to be in his circus, This is about a mermaid that sings to the sea creatures, She ends up in a circus and has to live in a tank where there is no sea life, This makes her sad so she wants to leave but the circus wont let her, She eventually gets back home to the sea where she is happy as she is singing back to the sea creatures again, Julia Donaldson books are always a pleasure and this one is no exception! The pictures are delightfully detailed the emotions portrayed on the sea creatures faces are wonderful! and the added glitter is sure to appeal to younger children.
The story is well thought out with a nice clear villain and the use of rich, rhyming text throughout is perfect for developing young children's awareness of rhythm, rhyme and repetition key skills for emerging readers.
This is sure to become a firm favourite with young children and will grow well with them from parent/teacher read aloud to independent readingyr olds, Picked this up for my neice in London, Sweet story of a singing mermaid who is lured to the circus and longs to go home, It is tactile and beautifully illustrated and longs to be read by little ones, Both my neice and nephew wanted to read this first out of aboutbooks I brought back, The Glitter on every page might have had something to do with that too : A great story with a great moral and happy ending, Kivaa riimittelyä, mutta tarina ja kuvitus ei oikein vakuuttanut, Ei yhtä hyvä kuin Schefflerin kanssa tehdyt, Whimsical and lyrical. Brilliantly and vividly illustrated with real glitter! Florence loves the happy ending, Loved it. The audiobook narration is so great, LOVE it! Growing upI grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey who was really a prince in disguise.
Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him, Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us, A wind up gramophone wafted out Chopin waltzes, I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar playing medic to whom Im now married, Busking and booksBefore Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country the best one was in Italian about pasta.
The busking led to a career in singing a Growing upI grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey who was really a prince in disguise.
Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him, Mary and I were always creating imaginary characters and mimicking real ones, and I used to write shows and choreograph ballets for us, A wind up gramophone wafted out Chopin waltzes, I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar playing medic to whom Im now married, Busking and booksBefore Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country the best one was in Italian about pasta.
The busking led to a career in singing and songwriting, mainly for childrens television, I became an expert at writing to order on such subjects as guinea pigs, window cleaning and horrible smells, “We want a song about throwing crumpled up wrapping paper into the bin” was a typical request from the BBC, I also continued to write “grown up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs, One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler, It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did, This prompted me to unearth some plays Id written for a school reading group, and since then Ive hadplays published, Most children love acting and its a tremendous way to improve their reading, My real breakthrough was THE GRUFFALO, again illustrated by Axel, We work separately hes in London and Im in Glasgow but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes, I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult, I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books, Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight year old.
I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers, When Im not writing I am often performing, at book festivals and in theatres, I really enjoy getting the children in the audience to help me act out the stories and sing the songs, When Malcolm can take time off from the hospital he and his guitar come too, and it feels as if weve come full circle back to busking, sitelink.
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