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The beautiful Indian style illustrations, include some surprise fold-out pages. An educational and entertaining book on many levels, it illustrates a difficult maths concept, tells a dynamic fable from another country, and it is fantastic to look at.

Joseph Kennedy-Pinnock and Kurt Wilbraham chose:

Jessica Murray and Laura Littlewood thought that:

parents would choose this book because it's interesting for their children under thirteen and it has some good describing words, also great pictures for the little ones to look at.

Jordan Bracewell, Gary Lapsley and Brady Coombs reported that they were, 'instantly attracted' to the book because of its 'bold colours' and they also liked, 'the flaps inside the book because we think this would encourage younger children to read and it will be like a game'.

Georgina and Danielle liked this because 'it looked like a girly book' and was about Princesses, one of their favourite topics. They summed up their views as follows: It is a book of make-believe and happy endings.  We particularly liked the story of Sleeping Beauty, which was slightly different to the one we know, the Queen was in the bath when she met the frog! 

A true story inspired Eric Carle to write this book. When a storm hit a cargo ship in 1992, a large crate containing 29,000 rubber ducks was swept over board. The ducks were washed ashore all over the world having travelled faster than the ocean currents.  In a story and typical Carle collage pictures we learn about 10 of these little rubber ducks.  We see how from factory assembly line to crate driven by lorry to a ship the little rubber ducks are taken across the wide sea to faraway countries. Suddenly a storm hits the cargo ship and one of the crates is thrown into the water. The box opens and 10 little rubber ducks fall out. The ten little rubber ducks drift apart. The first little rubber duck drifts west. A dolphin jumps over it. The 2nd little rubber duck drifts east. A seal barks at it. And so on until the 10^th little rubber duck meets a mother duck and her ducklings, who adopt the rubber duck. As night falls the family Quack goodnight to each other and if you press the little rubber duck you can hear his squeak of joy.

Kane Low and Adam Knights chose:
The Little Crooked House
Kane and Adam decided that this book would appeal to children up to 8 years old. They particularly liked the way the words in the text, 'make you think that the train, desert and the wide river are alive', because of the way they are written.