A Rhinoceros Wakes Me Up in the Morning

This read aloud 'bedtime story' presents something of a dilemma, for in order to appreciate and enjoy the metre and rhythm of the rhyming text - one line per page - it needs to be read through without pausing. But doing so allows the young child only a cursory glance at the fantasy world of the illustrations wherein a red-headed boy is assisted by a veritable menagerie of real and mythical animals through his day at home and school. The answer is of course to read it twice over. Incidently this is and admirable demonstration too of the importance of reading a book to a young child before asking him or her to try it alone as it is possible to miss entirely the rhyming nature of the text from a slow sequential reading.