Children's Book review

Whoosh Around the Mulberry Bush

By Jan Ormerod

Published by Oxford Childrens Books

Inspired by Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, this book takes readers on a rhyme-filled, action-packed journey across the planet. Beginning with a mulberry bush in an ordinary garden, it sweeps across farmyards, beaches, oceans, deserts, jungles and ice-caps, taking in many different animals before swirling through a starry night to arrive safely home. You can't help wanting to join in with this book, as the driving rhythm pulls you along. It's an introduction to world-wide environments and animal behaviours and the colourful illustrations move as joyously through the book as the text, which delights in playing with the song's language. A book that starts with a mulberry bush and encompasses the entire world!

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Illustrator: Lindsey Gardiner

Reading age: 5+
Interest level: 2+