[Review] The Giant Jumperee by Julia Donaldson
Puffin
April 6th 2017 (first published January 1st 2000)
16
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Rabbit was hopping home one day when he heard a loud voice coming from inside his burrow. "I'M THE GIANT JUMPEREE AND I'M SCARY AS CAN BE!" When Rabbit's friends Cat, Bear and Elephant come to help they are each scared away in turn by the mysterious voice.
He can squash you like a flee
He will sting you like a bee
And he's taller than a tree!
But who is the Giant Jumperee?
A new read-aloud classic from internationally bestselling author Julia Donaldson, beautifully brought to life by award-winning illustrator Helen Oxenbury.
The Giant Jumperee
by Julia Donaldson
Who doesn’t love Julia’s books? – The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom are huge bedtime favourite for my kids and The Giant Jumperee is quickly being added to that list!
The story follows Rabbit who upon hearing a mysterious voice coming from his burrow enlists his other animal friends – Cat, Bear & Elephant, to get the Giant Jumperee out of the burrow. They are all scared of the mysterious voice in the burrow until Mrs Frog comes along and proves that there is nothing to be scared of at all.
I love the illustrations in this book and true to Julia’s format the words are repetitive and engaging that kids will love this story just as much as the others she has written.
Purchase links
Amazon UK
About the Author
Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world’s best-loved picture books, and was the 2011-2013 UK Children’s Laureate. Her books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man, What the Ladybird Heard and the modern classics The Gruffalo, the The Gruffalo’s Child which have sold 17 million copies worldwide and has been translated into seventy languages. Julia also writes fiction as well as poems, plays and songs and her brilliant live children’s shows are always in demand. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between Sussex and Edinburgh.
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