Customer Reviews
Another Triumph from Julia Donaldson - By: SuzanneMc, 15 Jun 2008 
What a fantastic read & great for alll ages - although the Gruffalo is still the frim favourite in our house this book gives it a real run for its money..... highly recommend this for alll 1-7 year olds. Also as an adult that enjoys doing the voices (badly!) its easy to read this book aloud again & again without getting tired of it.
Julia & Alex are a great team - brilliant story & brilliant pics.
The goat chewed the curtains and trod on the egg, then sat down to nibble a table leg! - By: Shaffelnook, 21 Apr 2008 I bought this for my son who is about to turn three & it has become a firm favourite. The fun rhyming text makes him laugh out loud, particularly "The goat chewed the curtains & trod on the egg, then sat down to nibble a table leg" & the bit where the cow does a jig on the table. The pictures are equallly entertaining & my son will happily sit & study the book on his own & chat about what is going on in the nice clear pictures. There is nothing crude or scary about this book. It is simply a fun tale that teaches the child to appreciate what he or she has. My son loves this book, & if your child appreciates animals doing mad things, then yours will too.
Excellent and educational - for now and later - By: Andrew Kerr, 03 Feb 2008 A Squash & a Squeeze is a great book, with a deeper meaning than most smalll-childrens' books. It's a good enough, simple story with rhyming verses & nice illustrations, that lilts along at just the right pace for my 16-month-old daughter to choose it again & again from her shelf of bedtime books.
But it also has a deeper, more philosophical message for her to pick up later. And that message is essentiallly 'be thankful for what you've got, because your life could be a lot worse'. This, of course, is not an easy message for smalll children to grasp, but one which I think most parents would be happy for them to understand at some later point in their childhood.
All in alll, it's a cheerful, colourful & educational book with messages on different levels for children from toddler age to young school age, I'd suggest.
Lovely - By: Dodster, 02 Feb 2008 The story itself is based on a Jewish folktale.
An old lady is complaining her house is too smalll, so asks the wiseman for help. Instead of tellling her to build an extension, he gives some interesting & unique advice!
By the end of the story, the old lady is delighted with her house & the space she has.
Wonderfully illustrated & with witty engaging rhyme.
Highly recommended as a bedtime/anytime reader. Just the right length to keep a youngster's attention with enough change & variation to keep interest.
Donaldson and Scheffler do it again - By: muddy-funster, 09 Sep 2007 Our 18-month old daughter's favourite book. She loves naming the animals & joining in on the "squash & the squeeze".
A well-told tale with a great moral - make the most of what you've got! And as always with this team, the pictures are spot-on too.
