Queen Munch and Queen Nibble |
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Pages: 64 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0333960653
Pub: Macmillan Children's Books
Pub date: 2002-10-11
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 786259
Reader Reviews:
Mouthwatering prose and brilliant illustrations. Good enough to eat! (0/0 people found this helpful)
WOW! This book is an absolute wonder, a mouthwateringly delicious longer-length picture book for 4+. It's beautifully written with incredibly vivid descriptive language and enticing vocabulary, a veritable hamper of brilliant simile and metaphor. The majority of these are food related: fluffy clouds like meringues, hair like a bread roll (Queen Nibble who is quiet as a mushroom) or a string of plump sausages (Queen Munch). Queen Munch who loves her food is lively, fun and colourful. Queen Nibbles is pale, like a ghost on a diet, has a special talent for making jewellery from the rain and is in need of a friend. Each Queen can learn from the other, and they become friends. The bright cheerful pictures reflect perfectly the 'foody' flavour of the text so Queen Munch's castle looks like a plump strawberry gateau and the trees are inhabited by colourful lollipop birds. If books were three dimensional, I would like to climb into this one!
Delightful (0/0 people found this helpful)
Having studied Carol Ann Duffy's poetry for A level, and consequently become thoroughly sick of her, I was very pleasantly surprised by this book.
It's a sweet and amusing story about friendship and embracing our differences; and the illustrations are superb. I would thoroughly recommend it.
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Books -> Subjects -> Poetry, Drama & Criticism -> Poetry -> Poets, A-Z -> ( C-D ) -> Duffy, Carol Ann
Books -> Subjects -> Children’s Books -> Ages 5-8 -> Picture Books
Books -> Subjects -> Children’s Books -> Education -> Baby & Toddler -> Picture Books
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Books -> Subjects -> Fiction -> Authors, A-Z -> D -> Duffy, Carol Ann
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