The Big-Wide-Mouthed Toad-Frog and other stories; The King with Dirty Feet and other stories
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Cover Story
This month BfK features Jane Ray’s cover for The Twelve Dancing Princesses. We’re particularly delighted to have the opportunity to use this illustration as it enables us to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Orchard Books - they’re 10 this year! And also to thank them for their help in producing our July cover.
The Big-Wide-Mouthed Toad-Frog and other stories
Compiled by Mary Medlicott
The King with Dirty Feet and other stories
Compiled by Mary Medlicott
In each of these books, Mary Medlicott has taken a handful of stories from a range of different cultures in versions by modern storytellers. These retellings retain the directness and lively rhythms of the oral tradition, and are excellent for reading aloud. They encompass moral tales and nonsense tales, a lie-telling yarn or two, and a range of explanatory myths about the origins of natural features. Sue Williams' illustrations are bright, gentle and uncomplicated, illuminating the rainbow like radiance of these tales. I would recommend these books very highly as a reading aloud resource, and for newly fluent readers to enjoy on their own.



