Tiny Little Fly
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This issue’s cover illustration by Mark Owen at Arcangel is from Julie Hearn’s Wreckers. Julie Hearn is interviewed by Nicholas Tucker. Thanks to Oxford University Press for their help with this March cover.
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Tiny Little Fly
Illustrated by Kevin Waldron
A tiny little fly pesters an elephant, a hippo and a tiger by turn. Each powerful animal is determined to catch the pesky fly but despite a ‘TRAMP! CRUSH! TRAMP’, a ‘ROLL! SQUASH! ROLL!’ and a ‘SWOOP! SNATCH! SWOOP!’ the fly eludes capture and continues to ‘fly, fly, fly’.
With a rhyming and repeated patterned text and gloriously great big animal illustrations – a fly’s eye view and perspective – in shades of grey, brown, green, orange, pink and black on thick, toned paper, this Rosen/Waldron offering is destined to be repeatedly read and pored over. Furthermore, it has every possible reading lesson embedded painlessly within.
