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OVER THE FENCE (PICTURE AND RHYME COLLECTION / Ages 4 to 6 (rhyming, bedtime, reading, children, kids, short, stories))
Peter Collier
ASIN: B005ZI2ZUK
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 29

This story enlightens children to the use of visual comprehension - i.e. not always will answers be given. Sometimes visual observations, deductive reasoning and elimination may reveal additional answers. This is what I see as the first real mystery story for children. The written verse asks only questions, and never does answer the question: "What's in the box?", but the illustration does.It is written and to be illustrated so that children maintain some focus on Fred, the dog. The ending is with Fred providing the answer to the mystery, by digging a hole in the shape of the object in the box (a large bone from the Natural History Museum – stickers on the box reveal part of the answer). My stories are designed for both the reader and the listener.Children will request parents to re-read, over and over again, a story that has caught their imagination.If not in rhyme, these stories ...
Amazon Rating:
5 stars from 14 ratings