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Tracey Thorn recommended The Magic Faraway Tree in Books (curated)

 
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Magic Faraway Tree
Enid Blyton | 2016 | Children
(0 Ratings)
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"The books that make up The Faraway Tree series are the books of my childhood, the most vivid early memories I have of stories and reading. My mum read them aloud to me and my sister, and the characters in them were as real to me as the next door neighbors. The actual faraway tree was a tall oak at the end of our garden. I truly believed that."

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Night Reader Reviews (683 KP) rated Grandma's Garden in Books

Jan 9, 2020  
Grandma's Garden
Grandma's Garden
Sudeep Bhuller | 2018
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Grandma’s Garden by Sudeep Bhuller is a very cute book and I could see it being given as a gift to a grandma who likes reading to her grandchildren. The book states that it is a great visual treat for babies discovering shapes and colors. While it is very colorful the images have soft edges and the shapes are not very well defined.

In this book, children are walked through Grandma’s Garden. The bright flowers and fruit trees are pointed out early on. Everything from cats and birds to tiny snails and millipedes are shown. Children also get to see ladybugs, bees, and even butterflies that may be harder to see up close in nature.

I really liked how bright and colorful the book is. It offers many opportunities for parents to have children point out what is being talked about on each page. Reading this book offers opportunities to “find the cat or snail” and “count the ants or birds”. Reading this right before taking a child out to plant a seed might be a fun activity. What I didn’t like was that at times while reading it out loud it felt as if there should be rhymes when none were present. The flow of the book is disrupted if you try to read it as a story. If you read each page as an individual and not part of a whole it is not as bad.

For target readers for this book, the author was correct in saying that infants and toddlers will enjoy having this book read to them. I know my two years old seemed to enjoy it. I rate this book 3 out of 4. While the book is beautifully illustrated and walks children thought the things they may find in a garden, I can not give it a perfect score. The problem with how the book doesn't flow very well did cause it to lose points with me.


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