#17- Yummy Eight Favorite Fairy Tales

Yummy Eight Favorite Fairy Tales

Written and Illustrated by: Lucy Cousins

Candle Wick Press

2009

121 pages

Traditional Literature

I chose this book because it is a collection of traditional literature piece that remind me of my childhood. This book has eight fairy tales that are well known. They are Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Billy Goats, The Enormous Turnip, Henry Penny, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Little Red Hen, The Three Pigs, and The Musicians of Bremen. The book has a contents page and the pages are numbered so it is easy to find each story.

The illustrations of this book are my favorite part. Each page has bold bright colors and the pictures are rigid. The illustrations were done in gouache. The book is a large square book so the pictures are large and exciting to look at. The text is informally placed and very informally placed. The titles and main ideas from the pages are very informally placed while the main story line is informally placed around the illustrations.

This book is appropriate for students starting at age three and up to age eight. This book would be great to read as a bed time story and to use in your classroom. When using this book in your classroom you could teach children the traditional stories and how they are passed down. Each story teaches children a different lesson that would be great to use for character education. You could use the different stories to teach children about animals like wolves, pigs, hens and others. Lucy Cousins is most well known for her character Maisy. This character is loved by many young readers. Yummy Eight Favorite Fairy Tales  received the Best Illustrated Children's Book Award. Cousins has received other awards like the Bologna Ragzzi Non-fiction Prize 1997 for Maisy’s House and the National Art Illustration Award in 1997 for the book Zaza’s Baby Brother. Lucy Cousins is a very talented author and illustrator.