Yummy: My Favourite Nursery Stories
by Lucy Cousins
Cousins’ version is particularly appropriate as the very earliest introduction for children to the world of fairy tale, and the innumerable retellings available as their reading proficiency grows.
These present a familiar visual style (one of Maisy’s relatives helps to pull out The Enormous Turnip) alongside the simplest of retellings, ideal for carers to read to toddlers, and for early readers to read for themselves.
Visual clues abound, and onomatopaeic sounds and repetitive phrases are printed boldly on the page, encouraging the audience to join in. The tales have traditional resolutions, with wolves meeting their due end!
Publisher: Walker Books
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Lucy Cousins
Maisy, the famous mouse, 'drew herself' one day, when Lucy was doodling various animals on a piece of paper, looking for inspiration, and the first Maisy book was published soon after Lucy left college. Lucy won the Bologna Ragazzi Non-fiction Prize 1997 for Maisy's House and has been Highly Commended for the National Art Illustration Award 1997 for Za Za's Baby Brother, images from which were also used in a publicity campaign by Tommy's, the baby's charity. Jazzy in the Jungle won the Smarties Book Prize in 2002. Hooray for Fish!, published in 2005, is a celebration of life under the sea.
Lucy Cousins
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Reading Age: 7+
Interest level: 4+
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