Tiddler

Julia Donaldson

ISBN 10: 1407130471 ISBN 13: 9781407130477

Publisher: Alison Green, 2012

Synopsis

Soms vertel die kleinste vissies die grootste stories …“Ek’s jammer, ek’s jammer, ek’s jammer ek’s laat,maar ek het geswem tussen mossels en wier.En daar by ’n wrak met ’n skatkis vol goudhet ek en ’n meermin gespeel vir ’n uur.”Glo ję Tjokkie se storie?Tjokkie is ’n vissie met ’n groot verbeelding; hy is altyd vol stories oor hy laat vir klas opdaag. Maar wat sal gebeur as hy eendag régtig in die moeilikheid beland? Sal iemand hom dan nog glo?

About this title

About the Author

Julia Donaldson served as the UK Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013 and has written many bestselling and beloved picture books and novels for young readers. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland, with her husband, Malcolm.
Axel Scheffler's award-winning books include Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, and The Gruffalo. His illustrations have been published in more than thirty countries. He lives in London, England.

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 3—Tiddler is a tiny fish with a propensity for tall tales. Habitually late for school, he offers a different excuse each day. He's been riding a seahorse, got trapped in a treasure chest, was captured by a squid, etc. The other students discount his stories, but Little Johnny Dory loves them and passes them on to his grandmother, who tells a crab, who tells a plaice, and so on. When Tiddler's daydreaming lands him far from home, it is the retracing of the trail of his own stories that leads him back again. The rhyme scheme here isn't precise, but it is reader-friendly, and invites participation: "'Sorry I'm late, Miss. I set off really early,/but on the way to school I was captured by a squid./I wriggled and I struggled till a turtle came and rescued me.'/'Oh no he didn't.' 'OH YES HE DID.'" The title here is a bit misleading as Tiddler doesn't tell his tales to mislead anyone deliberately, as in the original fable. Instead, he resembles Dr. Seuss's Marco from And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (Random, 1989), whose imagination is similarly bursting at the seams. The colorful, detailed illustrations feature an endearing cast of undersea denizens with the text woven through on clean white space. This would be an engaging book to share when stories have an underwater theme or when discussing how tales proliferate.—Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ
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Edition details

• Publisher: Alison Green
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1407130471
• ISBN 13: 9781407130477
• Binding: Unknown Binding
• Number of pages: 40