Advantages: Delightful read for small children Disadvantages: none
enjoy a cup of chamomile tea but Hare wants to be read to. Tortoise agrees and attempts to rush through the book before his tea gets cold but Hare is having none of that. Instead of urging Tortoise to rush, this time his plea is to
'Hurry up and slowdown!'
and as he so rightly points out, everyone needs to take their time when enjoying a good book.
I shared this book with my four year old and five year old daughters and they both loved it. They also happen to love all books so they definitely agree with Tortoise's sentiments about reading. The characters are both very expressive and their differences are illustrated well through the beautiful pictures. The story is simple but amusing and the message at the end about making time to enjoy books is definitely worth sharing.
Like most picture books, there is only a small amount of text ...
Advantages: Good fun book for children Disadvantages: Small writing
Mr Slow is number 39 in the Mr Men book collection. He is a round shaped man and is light green in colour. He has a yellow round nose with a big white moustache and he wears a bright green hat.
The front cover of the book is white and has a picture of Mr Slow and the title in black lettering above this and the back cover is also white and has small pictures showing all the other characters available in the collection.
THE STORY
At the start of the book we are told a bit about Mr Slow, he lives next door to Mr Busy. He lives in a house which he built himself, it took him 10 years. Mr Slow also talks in a very very slow way and everything that he did was also done very slowly. We are told that if Mr Slow had a current cake for tea it took him until bedtime to finish eating it, he would eat it crumb by crumb and he chewed each ...
I bought myself a slow cooker a few months ago and realised that I had never used it, it just sat in my cupboard waiting for me to find the time to read the instruction booklet and start working out how it was used.
Eventually I got it out and decided to buy myself a cook book so as to get the best out of my new appliance. I bought the gina Steer one as it had some good reviews and I liked the way the recipes were laid out, they looked very clear and easy to read and the pictures made the food look very tempting!
What is great about the book is that there are about 150 recipes so there is great variation from soups, starters, main meals and even desserts. I wasn't aware that you could make desserts in a slow cooker, I thought it was mainly used for casseroles and soups but no! you can make all sorts!
The recipes I've used from ...
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