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Jingle Jangle Jungle

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BfK No. 145 - March 2004

Cover Story
This issue's cover illustration is from Satoshi Kitamura's Once Upon an Ordinary School Day. Satoshi Kitamura is interviewed by Martin Salisbury. Thanks to Andersen Press for their help with this March cover.

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Jingle Jangle Jungle

Illustrated by Axel Scheffler
(Campbell Books Ltd)
12pp, 978-1405020442, RRP £9.99, Board book
Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
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This is a new one on me. A jigsaw puzzle incorporated in a book. It's in the jungle, so you get 1 hippo, 2 giraffes, 3 elephants... and because it's jingle jangle, there's dancing and prancing, twirling and flouncing. The illustrated storyline is on the left-hand page in rhyming couplets: 'Ten frisky frogs, croaking in a tree, Jump down from the branches and join the jamboree!' and the jigsaw is on the right-hand page, so you get to count the animals twice. There are two two-piece jigsaws on each page, which you flick out and assemble. Then you place them neatly back into the inset. You match a picture of three elephants with '3' and 'Three elephants'. It all feels very nice, and the jigsaws fit together well, although it might all fall apart on the shelf. The pictures are jolly, and the language is nicely onomatopoeic.

Reviewer: 
Sheila Ebbutt
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