This excellent novel for primary and middle school readers is a sequel to the award winning The One and Only Ivan. HarperCollins, 2020.Ĭhildren love animal stories and so do I. The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate. Quite simply the best picture book this year. The illustrations are superb, the colours are pastel, the characterisation inspired, and it can be used as a read aloud for juniors. What do you think fish will do with it? read it and find out. Tim and Tom cat find the other sock and Lisette and Bert give chase but they throw it on the river where fish finds it. Lisette finds a single green sock, likes it and puts on her left foot although it ends up on her right foot by the time she gets back home again.īert the rat likes the sock too but he prefers it as a hat. Lisette and her mum both wear head scarfs, which I like, and they both are birds, probably chickens. “ On a bright sunny day, Lisette goes out for a walk“. In this instance it is a green sock and a very comfortable looking sock it is too. It’s about individuality and difference and how everybody can use things in a different way. If I wanted a go to a picture book to cheer me up, this is the one I would read. Lisette’s Green Sock by Catharina Valckx. There are lessons in how to form a business and how to do a puppet show as well as the crazy action that surrounds a talking dog puppet. He is intelligent, imaginative and has good people skills, but will he survive a paper mache dog with all the appetites and qualities of the real thing. The hand puppet morphs and comes alive as Masher and the action starts. In a comedy of errors Freddy kicks the ashes over, conceals the spilt ashes in a pie bag takes them home and mixes them in the flour mixture to stiffen up the paper mache, and uses it to complete the puppet. he is cremated and his ashes are left by the gate to Axl’s house. His name is Axl and he has a vicious Staffordshire bull terrier called Masher.įreddy is inspired by a teacher to make a puppet made of paper mache but he struggles because it is too soft, so he mixes up a concoction of flour water and sugar to bind the paper mache together. His father is a builder and his sister is flirting with the metal head a couple of house along from his. Freddy Foxworthy is an arty boy and he is daring.
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