The Long Nosed Pig
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This issue’s cover is from The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Poetry (cover illustration by Peter Weevers). Edited by Alison Sage (who also edited The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Literature), this sumptuous anthology is loosely divided into four sections corresponding to age starting with nursery rhymes and first poems through to poems for older children and classic poetry. Poems from such modern poets as Roger McGough, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope and Maya Angelou sit alongside poems by Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shelley and Shakespeare. The anthology is illustrated in full colour and black and white. Newly commissioned illustrations from, for example, Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes and Nicola Bayley are included alongside illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, Jessie Willcox Smith and Kate Greenaway. With such a comprehensive range of poems for 2-11 year olds and upwards, this is a wonderful family book.
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The Long Nosed Pig
Illustrated by Jonathan Lambert
This pop-up book from the same stable as The Wide-Mouthed Frog has proved successful with all the children I tried it with in the Infant classes. With Kipling-like charm Faulkner and Lambert have produced a cautionary tale showing how pride or in this case a pig boasting about a beautiful long nose comes before a dramatic fall or shortening of this feature! Younger children loved the surprise element as each page turned and the pop-ups grew increasingly extravagant. Older children wanted to see how it worked but all loved the cocky pig and gleefully enjoyed his downfall! This title will not have a long shelf life but will be much loved and may entice those children who need many invitations into the wider world of books.
