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|title=Whoosh Around the Mulberry Bush

|author=Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner

|reviewer=Magda Healey

|genre=For Sharing

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=32

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|date=February 2007

|isbn=978-0192791726

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''Whoosh Around the Mulberry Bush'' takes the old and well loved children's song as a starting point and continues the theme and pattern throughout different locations round the world, with a variety animals doing the whooshing and dancing. Garden insects and snails ''slime along'' round ''the flower bed on a sweetly smelling morning'', and savannah animals ''suck and slurp, wallow in mud (...) round the waterhole on a dry and dusty morning''.

''Whoosh Around the Mulberry Bush'' is an excellent little book, a great blend of words and pictures; fun and educational opportunities. Recommended for all children from about 1.5 to 3, maybe 4 years old. I would particularly recommend it for nurseries, playgroups, childminders with a few toddlers/pre-schoolers and anybody who has several children to engage and entertain. There is a [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0192792083?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0192792083 version with a CD], which I didn't have a chance to try, but the tune is well known and can be just sang out. So far, I hadn't see a "giant" version, but if it appears, it would be worth buying for a larger group, though both pictures and fonts in the normal size book are large enough to be visible from some distance. After few applications you are likely to know it by heart anyway!

[[Rattletrap Car]] is another book for the little ones with a lot of onomatopoeic words and great rhythm, and [[There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly]] is another excellent variation on an old children's folk song.

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