Alfie in the Garden by Debi Gliori
Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2014. ISBN: 9781408839515
(Age: preschool) Theme: Imagination. This is a very simple story for
pre-schoolers with a little rabbit called Alfie who leaves the side
of his mother to explore in the garden. Imagination gets a
chance to play, and Alfie is shown playing in the garden in
simplified illustrations, with toys and insects as companions. A
fold-out page is also used to demonstrate the wider world that Alfie
is entering via his imagination.
The language used is uncomplicated with a smattering of onomatopoeia
and occasional rhyme and assonance.
Carolyn Hull