Having a Picnic

Sarah Garland has got it exactly right. Here we meet the same family whom we saw in Going Shopping and Doing the Washing preparing for the picnic, trundling off to the park, feeding the ducks and then having some of the more greedy ones stealing their buns; and of course, they return home tired but happy. It's one of those books where one actually feels a part of the story, experiencing the struggle up the hill and the pleasure of the meal, and what's more it's one that learner readers delight in over and over.