Charlie Cook's Favourite Book

Once upon a time there was a boy
called Charlie Cook
Who curled up in a cosy chair
and read his favourite book ...

This may be my favourite Julia Donaldson/Axel Scheffler so I was very pleased by little a's choice tonight

It's a brilliantly woven story, classic Julia Donaldson rhymes which make it easy to read aloud, and lovely visual jokes in Axel Scheffler's illustrations (look at the spines of the books in the endpapers, the running heads on each spread, the 'prison library' stamp on the burglar page - make me smile every time)

little a verdict:

pirates have earrings and spotty chins [that's stubble] actually I think they're freckles

she likes to shout out "Charlie Cook" and read along the end of the rhyming couplets
And on the final page, we name all the characters surrounding Charlie's chair (for extra fun, compare the illustration at the beginning, and see if you can spot the visual clues hidden there ...)