Once Upon a Time (Walker paperbacks)

Summary

The day is really rather dull for a little boy in the middle of the country with just Mum and the cat for company. Nothing happens, no one comes by ...so he says, anyway. - But the pictures tell a very different story! There are the Three Bears and Goldilocks; The Three Little Pigs building their houses; Little Red Riding Hood and a Big Bad Wolf; a witch flying about on a broomstick; Humpty Dumpty climbing up on to a wall; a giant stamping about the countryside; a cat and a fiddle and a cow jumping over the moon. All around the little boy exciting things are happening - but at the end of the day, the little boy yawns and tells his father, Nothing much happened round here today ! Vivian French's books include the fiction titles Zenobia and Mouse , Under the Moon and Tillie McGillie's Fantastical Chair the picture books Princess Primrose , Lazy Jack (1995) and A Song for Little Toad (1995) and the Read and Wonder books The Apple Trees , Spider Watching and Caterpiller Caterpiller (shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler Award). John Prater is the author and illustrator of On Friday Something Funny Happened which was runner-up for The Mother Goose Award, No, said Joe an