You Tube Reading by Little Loves Library
'They were Ticky and Tacky and Jackie the Backie and Jim with two noses and Jo with the bow'.
'You can't catch us. Oh no no no!
We're holding hands and we won't let go.'
A beautiful tale of a little girl who makes five paper dolls with her mum and takes them on many adventures until they are snipped by a little boy. The paper dolls do not disappear, however, and the girl turns into a woman and a mother, who passes on the gift of play and creativity to her own daughter,
The illustrations are immediate, fantastical and flow wonderfully with the simplicity and magic of the text.
Why I like this story:
The repetitive, catchy 'chorus' is musical and melodic
The story is an opener for creative, simple games with kids
The book pays hommage to a child's imagination
There is strength in togetherness, there is power in a child's imagination!
The story can also be used to accompany a child suffering from loss or trauma (nothing is lost forever; using your memory to store and keep precious things long after they have gone).
No comments:
Post a Comment