Back in February Liz and the kids reviewed a copy of Zoe and Beans: The Magic Hoop (if you missed it you can find it here). Today Liz reviews another Macmillan book in the Zoe and Beans series.... Zoe and Beans: Pants On The Moon.
What
a great book! I’d never even heard of Zoe and Beans until we were sent ‘The Magic Hoop’ a few months ago. Since then I’ve become a convert.
This new book ‘Pants on the Moon’ is my favourite and we have read it
over and over again since receiving it.
It
always amazes me how authors can write a simple story, consisting of a couple
of hundred words, and make it so readable and enjoyable to children of
different ages. Father and daughter team, Chloë and Mick Inkpen have the talent to do this in bucketfuls.
Not only do they keep the kids entertained but I have to admit to quite
enjoying them myself (for example, the airline called ‘Squeezyjet’).
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| Sophie loves this book! |
Sophie
is thirteen months and loves books. She constantly brings this book to me and
plonks herself down on my knee. We read pretty quickly and she loves touching
the illustrations. They are big enough that she can explore them with her
chubby little fingers, and there aren’t many on each page so she can process
them quite easily.
Jonny
is three and I think the ‘Zoe and Beans’ series really hits the mark for him.
The writing is set out in different ways on each page and there are the perfect
number of words to read and look at the illustrations without him getting bored.
The pictures seem to illustrate exactly what is happening in the story and he
can now tell us the story instead. Any story about ‘pants’ has to appeal to a
young boy’s sense of humour and the fact that one pair stays on the moon
(although I would hate to give away the ending) is hilarious to him (and his
dad).
The
story is bonkers, the illustrations are great. We just love it!
This book was received free of charge. All opinions expressed in this post are entirely our own.
