Mr Wolf's Week

A book of pure fun. Colin Hawkins's ungainly wolf blunders his way through the days of the week with a very British obsession with the weather. Dressing for the extraordinary changes of climate the encounters (snow one day, hot sunshine the next) Mr Wolf sets out each day and faces disaster. The real fun is that the text is a deadpan report --- the pictures tell the true story, of how he jumps in what he thinks is a puddle, but is actually a duck pond or of what happens when he meets a shark at the beach, for instance. This has been a great favourite with both mature and immature readers. It is actually an extended cartoon and the support and enjoyment this format gives young children is invaluable. Only one adverse comment from my class ... why does it say mittens when he's wearing gloves?