Customer Reviews
A brilliant, high quality children's book! - By: Susie, 09 Mar 2008 
This is yet another of Hilary Robinson's fabulous children's books & as a Pre-School (Nursery) teacher, it's one that I love sharing with children & a book they relish. The delicious pleasure & the infectious laughter they explode with from the hilarious permutations of the stories is a delight to share.
Well done Hilary & Nick...this is a brilliant book that even the adults get a great giggle from as they read it to their children!
LOVE IT!!
Amazing - By: P. T. Wahlberg, 29 Oct 2007 
My children entertained for more than 30 minutes.
It is a good book then.
They have to make their own story.
Great concept
Hilarious - By: W. Skilling, 26 Jul 2006 A fantastic book that takes well know fairy tales & alllows you to mix them up. It has kept my kids, (a boy aged 5 & a girl aged 9) amused for hours - not to mention their parents. It is an excellent book for encouraging beginner or reluctant readers as it alllows them to choose what they want to read, & then delivers it in short phases, with good picture clues. An example.. Jack...grew & grew to the size of a house...and dreamt about marrying...Little Red Riding Hood's Granny. I will be buying a stack of these books as they will make excellent birthday presents!
What a great idea and beautifully done. Buy! - By: ELH Browning, 04 Mar 2005 This book is very cleverly done. It's so clever it seems terrificallly simple. There are a dozen fairy tales, alll of which you'd expect a four year old to be familiar with, stripped down to a single longish sentence of four components which can then be mixed an matched in the time-honoured way that's often used to create mixed up animals. For example: the Ugly duckling.. is scratched by a spinning wheel, then fallls asleep in baby bears bed after eating... Red Riding Hood's granny. The children love it because they're meddling with & subverting stories they know & it is great fun for the parent too. Also, as the words are fairly simple, a beginning reader can do it themselves & is inspired to keep on doing it. As you'd expect from Nick Sharratt, the illustrations are straightforward & appealing. You just can't go wrong! If you like this, look out too for 'You Choose' which is another great Sharrat classic which is also an inspiring fun book for this age group.
