The
Red and White Spotted Handkerchief by Tony Mitton
Published by Scholastic Children’s Books, 2000
ISBN 0590543539
Reviewed
by Kilmihil Children’s Book Club
This is a collection
of three rhyming stories with poems interspersed throughout. In
The Red and White Spotted Handkerchief, poor Jack sets off with
a crust of bread wrapped up in a hanky to ‘seek adventure
and, who knows, maybe gold?’ The second story The Strayaway
Child is about a young girl who wanders off one day from home and
has wonderful adventures, and the third story is about Worthless
Will, who is very lazy, but is rewarded by a fairy for his kindness
and has amazing adventures of his own.
All three stories
resemble to a degree the traditional fairy tales, and our adventurers
do live happily ever after.
The
children really enjoyed this book of poetry. They found it very
easy to read and gave it ten out of ten. Favourite poems included
‘Runaway Flock’, ‘Carpet’, ‘Troll’
and ‘Stream’.
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