No Matter What Padded Board Book (Send a Story)

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With peep-through pages throughout and an irresistibly, squishy shiny rainbow at the end, this is the perfect book to celebrate individuality in an uplifting and accessible way for little ones. All written content contained on this site belongs to the author, unless otherwise stated, and should not be appropriated for use by anyone without permission.

I didn't see this as a grief/death thing at all, instead I interpreted it as a "someone's moved away" scenario. She is the author/illustrator of many books for children including Mr Bear, the winner of a Children's Book Award. Large held Small snug as they looked out at the night, at the moon in the dark, and the stars shining bright.I also like that the child and parent in the book aren't gendered or identified beyond "Small" and "Large," so any child can fill in any parental figure.

So whilst his enthusiastic reception marked this book out as a real perennial favourite, it also marked it out as a book to enjoy at home. In this reassuring and warm picture book, the hugely talented Debi Gliori manages to treat the familiar subject of childhood worries in a very fresh, original and inventive way.

Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. This video link is provided to help an adult assess the book's suitability for a child's situation before purchasing it. The little fox referred to as Small in the story wants to know will his mother love him no matter what he was. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Toks trumputis pasakojimas, gal net ne pasakojimas, bet trumputis pokalbis tarp mažylio ir jo mamos.

PreS-Feeling grumpy, Small, a little fox, has a tantrum that turns the living room topsy-turvy, after which he questions Large about the resiliency and endurance of his parental love-"If I were a grumpy grizzly bear,/would you still love me? In fact we all loved the book so much that "No Matter What" is a phrase we all often use to this day. With a gentle, rhyming text and illustrations that exude a snuggly warmth, she offers a reassuring, though ultimately cloying answer. Still, all the answers are reassuring, and answer questions that many children may not even be able to express–such as knowing that the parent will still love the child, even if they are away from them.Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Scots children's author and illustrator Debi Gliori - best known for her series of adorable picture-books featuring Mr. The stars feature heavily in the illustrations too remind those who have read it before how stars are always there, just sometimes we can’t see them. Large shows Small that love is there ‘no matter what’ in this robust board book edition of a classic picture book.

In this beautiful and lyrical picture book we see a clever and resourceful mother prove to her child that a parents love is limitless-no matter what! So here's what you need to know for starters - black bears are dangerous and black, brown bears are dangerous and brown. DEBI GLIORI is the award-winning author and illustrator of many Bloomsbury picture books including the Alfie series, The Trouble with Dragons, Dragon Love Penguin and the bestselling No Matter What. Bough for my son as it touches a little on death very lightly and as he’s been piecing a few things together at this age (nearly 5) I wanted to reassure him a little if he was a bit concerned. Small questions this by suggesting a number of conditions to test her love such as would Large still love him if he was a bear or a crocodile etc.

She then received a travelling scholarship award to go to Milan, and worked as a freelance from 1984 onwards. I would also use this cross-curricular in art where we can take inspiration from the illustrations of the book. At first, he can't work out what the machine is for-it doesn't beep or buzz like all his other machines and it doesn't have an ON/OFF button.