2019, pre-school, ages 0-4,
This delightful picture book is published by innovative publisher Unbound. This works a little like crowd-funding. Would-be readers pledge a certain amount and receive an appropriate award. More often than not this is a special edition of the book. Obviously friends and family may vote with their cash, hopefully so will fans and followers. There could be some dangers there. Thankfully most books make it to funding because they have merit.
Indeed, this has many of the usual characteristics of a
picture book that a young child who has not yet learned to read would share with
a caring adult: it has quirky, stylized pictures that tell more of the story, a
limited amount of text, a sophisticated font and reasonably complex language.
The story might be scary – is the café cooking people?
Indeed, the final dish to arrive is “Baby food”. “Oh,” thinks our protagonist. We
pause for a moment. That might just be food for the baby or it might be food
made from the baby. We just need to reflect a little. We’ve seen “Mummygatwany
soup” “father beans” and “nana split” and
Mum, Dad and Nana are alive and well.
This is a very attractive book with great attention to detail;
even the end papers are amusing.
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