It is with great pleasure I join the blog tour for author Sarah Tagholm and illustrator Jane McGuiness and their latest book We are the Wibbly. My stop on the tour will be a book review.
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Title: We are the Wibbly
Written by: Sarah Tagholm
Illustrated by: Jane McGuiness
Published by: Bloomsbury
Blurb
OH MY CRIKEYS!
Doesn’t life move fast? One moment you’re in the Wibbly, relaxing with your Wibbly friends. The next, they’ve all grown tails and turned into tadpoles! And what’s more, they are bursting OUT of the Wibbly … AND you’ve got to keep up!
Some tadpoles don’t feel ready to become frogs.
And some never wanted to become tadpoles in the first place.
Blurb for We are the Wibbly by Sarah Tagholm and Jane McGuiness
Review
We are the Wibbly is the ideal book to stimulate discussion on lifecycles and growing up. This book outlines the lifecycle of the frog with the unique voice of one of the tadpoles who is not as advanced as its brothers and sisters. I liked the way we are totally in first person in the point of view of the tadpole throughout the story. There is no omniscient, third person narrator as there is in many picture books. This made this book stand out for me.
The illustrations and tadpole expressions are adorable. The pastel shades are perfect for the lake environment and I liked the use of orange to symbolise danger.
There is also scope provided by reading this book to young infants for discussing sibling rivalry and wanting to be the same as everyone else. Although, it was lovely that at the end of the book the tadpole / frog was able to teach his brothers and sisters something, showing everything has its strengths.
This is a great picture book highlighting the difficulties of growing up and the problems we face that shape our lives in a way young children can relate to. After all, we all had to face our own ‘spiked hunger monster’ and ‘furry danger monster’ throughout our lives.
The perfect book for pre-school and nurseries and if you are doing a topic on minibeasts and lifecycles.
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Author Information
Sarah Tagholm is a children’s author who loves writing about confused animals, mischievous children and all things funny and strange. Her first book, Wolves in Helicopters, was published by Andersen Press and illustrated by Paddy Donnelly.
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sarah.tagholm
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrstwit
Illustrator Information
Jane McGuinness is a Scottish illustrator and author who specialises in picture books. She loves animals, trees and the natural world, and completed the prestigious MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. She was awarded the Sebastian Walker Prize and her debut picture book, Say Hi to Hedgehogs! (Walker Books, 2018) was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Award.
Instagram: https://instagram.com/bookshelfjane
Twitter: https://twitter.com/janelikesyou
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I would like to thank Bee from Kaleidoscopic Tours for inviting me on this tour.
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