Mr Bear Says Hello, Baby Bear
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This issue’s cover is from the picture book adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe illustrated by Christian Birmingham. Thanks to Collins Children’s Books for their help in producing this November cover.
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Mr Bear Says Hello, Baby Bear
A thick, large format board book whose 16 double spreads weigh in at around 700g - awkward for an adult to handle easily, never mind a toddler. Might be a bit nasty if dropped on the toes, in fact... That obstacle overcome, inside the baby will find a series of rhyming (or almost rhyming) couplets such as 'A spoonful for you and a spoonful for me. And a spoonful for teddy and bunny and bee.' Another couplet rhymes 'toes' with 'clothes', and not all the lines scan. The illustrations have a certain charm and some nice toddler activities are shown, but the book as a whole does not hang together well and the verse is banal. I would take my $pD5.99 elsewhere, frankly.
