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May 1, 2012/in Picture Book Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant /by Angie Hill
BfK Rating:
BfK 194 May 2012
Reviewer: Jill Bennett
ISBN: 978-1849393829
Price: £6.99
Publisher: Andersen Press
Genre: Picture Book
Age Range: Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant
Length: 32pp
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Nora: The Girl Who Ate and Ate and Ate

Author: Andrew WealeIllustrator: Ben Cort

Nora Fatima Buffet has an insatiable appetite. She thinks nothing of consuming the huge chocolate cake that her mother has just baked till, caught in the act, she is banished to her bedroom. There, however, she doesn’t confine her guzzling to the stash of snacks in her chest of drawers, she proceeds to devour the furniture, toys and computer  (sandwiched in her mattress); all this is followed by her clothes even those she’s wearing… Inevitably, such a mighty feast leads to a vast projectile burp. Thereupon Nora is launched lunarwards where, instead of learning her lesson, she finds yet more to gorge on… You’ve guessed it – cheese!

There is plenty for the eyes to feast on for sure in Ben Cort’s suitably exuberant illustrations for this preposterous, jaunty, rhyming, Belloc-style cautionary tale. It’s one that children will relish.

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