Books from the Basement

Welcome to Children's Corner book reviews from 4MBS Classic Radio FM in Brisbane. Here you will find short annotations of the children's books reviewed by Kerry Neary in Children's Corner on 4MBS, together with the details you need to find them at your favourite bookstore. Any prices shown are the publisher's Australian recommended price and may vary depending on where you shop. You are welcome to use these reviews for newsletters and the like with appropriate acknowledgement.

May 3, 2014

Shh! We have a plan

Chris Haughton
Walker Books
ISBN: 9781406342321           RRP: $24.95

Four intrepid bird-hunters are out a-hunting with their nets when they come upon the most beautiful of birds. The smallest calls out a greeting but the others quickly silence him. They have a plan! Turn the page and we see a tangle of hunters and nets while the bird is flying away. And so it keeps happening. The problem seems to be that no one knows the plan. Then the smallest hunter gets the chance to use the direct approach, with fluttering success! Both text and illustrations are heavily understated. Have the hunters learnt a lesson? Enter a squirrel.
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