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A review by michaelcattigan
If You Give the Puffin a Muffin by Timothy Young
4.0
This was a delightful little book for younger children. My daughter who is four loved the illustrations which were cute and colourful and simplistic. I might have liked to have seen a little more detail in the drawings and background, something to grab her attention and spark questions beyond the Puffin himself.
The book did provide the Puffin with lots of expressions - we like to practise "How do you think he feels" questions when we read! - and I do enjoy the idea of characters breaking the walls between reader, character and author. But it has been done before and more thoughtfully and with more fun: Nibbles the Book Monster springs to mind.
But it was fun and enjoyable and my daughter liked it, so worthy of maybe three and a half stars. In the absence of that option, four stars!
The book did provide the Puffin with lots of expressions - we like to practise "How do you think he feels" questions when we read! - and I do enjoy the idea of characters breaking the walls between reader, character and author. But it has been done before and more thoughtfully and with more fun: Nibbles the Book Monster springs to mind.
But it was fun and enjoyable and my daughter liked it, so worthy of maybe three and a half stars. In the absence of that option, four stars!