Pippo Gets Lost; Tom and Pippo's Day; Tom and Pippo Go for a Walk; Tom and Pippo Read a Story
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Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Poetry (cover illustration by Peter Weevers). Edited by Alison Sage (who also edited The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Literature), this sumptuous anthology is loosely divided into four sections corresponding to age starting with nursery rhymes and first poems through to poems for older children and classic poetry. Poems from such modern poets as Roger McGough, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope and Maya Angelou sit alongside poems by Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shelley and Shakespeare. The anthology is illustrated in full colour and black and white. Newly commissioned illustrations from, for example, Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes and Nicola Bayley are included alongside illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, Jessie Willcox Smith and Kate Greenaway. With such a comprehensive range of poems for 2-11 year olds and upwards, this is a wonderful family book.
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Pippo Gets Lost
Tom and Pippo's Day
Tom and Pippo Go for a Walk
Tom and Pippo Read a Story
First published ten years ago, these titles about episodes from the life of toddler Tom and his toy monkey, Pippo have been reissued as small, square board books. Aspects of the relationships between Tom, his comfort object and his parents are shown through the uneventful happenings of the toddler day.
Small pencil drawings, supporting and sometimes extending the text, appear at the top of each left-hand page - the text leads in turn to the full-colour right-hand page taking the eye from left to right in preparation for (much-later) reading.
Their episodic nature makes these books work best as a set, so that the reader becomes familiar with the characters. Toddler life and emotions are gently and humorously shown, and Daddy has a higher profile than is usual in books of this type.
