Bumblebee Grumblebee by David Elliott

Bumblebee Grumblebee by David Elliott
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Category: For Sharing
Reviewer: Sue Magee
Summary: Fun with words and gentle amusement - a gem for the child who is at the stage of realising that words can be changed.
Buy? Yes	Borrow? Yes
Pages: 18	Date: February 2022
Publisher: Gecko Press
ISBN: 978-1776574025
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I love a good board book! Bumblebee Grumblebee is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (er, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can play with words and make something quite different from each one. We have the elephant who dons a tutu - and becomes a balletphant. The buffalo who has had a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off with a hair drier becomes a fluffalo. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a crynoceros (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes into a sm....... OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

We have nine animals who change into something quite different because of what they're doing. It's a lovely exploration of words and how they sound as well as an encouragement to play with them. The book is going to build confidence in using words and remove that awful belief that there's something sacrosanct about them. The illustrations are lovely - a very muted palate allows what's happening to shine through.

If you judge books by how many words there are on the page, then this book will not be for you. There's just one word on each page and a seventeen in the book but it's packed with humour and - for the most part - the words are ones that toddlers have already met. It's an absolute joy to share with a child.

Just a word of warning, though - the child who really takes to this book is going to find all sorts of words that can be changed. This could lead to anarchy!

I want to thank the publishers for sending a copy to the Bookbag.

Gecko Press is a very classy publisher. Their books are quality. We can recommend Max's Wagon by Barbro Lindgren and Eva Eriksson for another of their board books.

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