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My children love "Tomorrow Findus, there'll be something"
by Anne Fischer
Forget the Grüffelo! "The Snail and the Humpback Whale" is the better book
28/2/2024
Translation: machine translated
Are you looking for a great picture book for your children? I recommend "The Snail and the Humpback Whale". The book teaches children empathy and justice without moralising.
Surely you know "The Gruffalo" by the British author Julia Donaldson. Published in 1999, the book has been translated into several languages and is now a true classic. But Donaldson and Grüffelo illustrator have more book projects together and one of them is "The Snail and the Humpback Whale", published in 2007.
What's it all about?
In short: it's about friendship, wanderlust and helping each other.
The story is told in rhyme. It's fun to look at the drawings by world-famous children's book illustrator Axel Scheffler while reading it aloud: They are childlike, but neither cheesy nor inaccurate.
Which book by Julia Donaldson do your children love? Let me know in the comments.
A true local journalist with a secret soft spot for German pop music. Mum of two boys, a dog and about 400 toy cars in all shapes and colours. I always enjoy travelling, reading and go to concerts, too.
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