Ketchup on Your Cornflakes?

Ketchup #1

by Nick Sharratt

This is a great reissuing of a perennially popular split-page book inviting children to howl with laughter at the fantastic and fantastical food concoctions they create. Do you like ketchup on your cornflakes? Tying in with Nick Sharratt's position as official illustrator for World Book Day 2006, this larger format edition, with its best cover yet, will ensure "Ketchup's" continuing longevity.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Food, Fiction, Humor

24 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 1996

About the author

Nick Sharratt is the author-illustrator of numerous books for children, including The Foggy, Foggy Forest and Dinosaurs’ Day Out.
He grew up in Suffolk, Nottinghamshire and Manchester, with his four siblings. He attended Manchester Polytechnic (now called Manchester Metropolitan University) where he completed an art foundation course. He was trained in graphic design at St. Martin's School of Art and took his later inspiration from the pop and graphic art of the 1960s, which he experienced as a child.
He lives in Brighton, England.

Reviews

[BrookesEducationLibrarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cheeky little split page flip book for younger readers to concoct all sorts of crazy meals and scenarios - do you like toothpaste on your toast? Or custard in your bath?
Very simplistic illustrations but very bold and colourful :)

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Childhood favourite! Absolutely loved this book

[Kit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yeeeees! The book of my childhood, my brother and I adored putting ketchup on our cornflakes, custard in our bath, toothpaste on our head...

Well, if you have to do the cleaning up afterwards, maybe this book isn't such a good idea, but although the layout is simplistic it's fun, brightly coloured and silly. My brother and I fought often over who would get to turn the pages. I picked this up again just the other day, now a teenager, and read through it with my little cousin, who thought it was hilarious. At every combination I asked her, "Do you like X on your Y?" and she would decide yes or no.

She always answered yes on the rubber duck. "You always want the rubber duck!" And that night she slept well.

[Liam Stamp · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book for children to mix and match clauses to create a question. This book would be great for young children to introduce to them how to form their own questions and learn about new items which they could eat

[Fanni Sütő · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've bought this book because I teach English to kids, so my perspective is a bit specialised. I think it's a great book, playful and funny and a great way to teach Do... questions and food items.

[Annie Donette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh my gosh- the LAUGHTER this book has elicited is ridiculous. My children loved it as babies, and they still love it now aged 8 and 5!

I also used this in a specialised reading programme for young reluctant readers. It is so interactive, engaging and irresistible that it really did play a big role in those children's reading journeys.

[Jemma · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok for the kind of book where you can match/mismatch the top and bottom halves. Nothing special though.

[Sue Read · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interactive book for children to mix and make up some very strange combinations! I wonder which you prefer?

[lukasz.stasiorowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like it so much

[Bianca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Children love this hilarious interactive book! Great to use in class!

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very simple book. There are two flaps. The first says, "Do you like ketchup" and the second says, "on your cornflakes?" with pictures of ketchup being pourn onto cornflakes. You can change the flaps to ask different questions: "Do you like milk on your cornflakes?" "Do you like custard on your toes?" "Do you like ice cubes in your lemonade?" The child can answer either yes or no.

This makes a great book for Teaching English as A Foreign Language or Second Language.

There is one British word: instead of french fries, it uses "chips".

[Katrina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is there Ketchup on Your Cornflakes, sounds kinda gross--which, ofcourse, is why kids will love this. This flip through book is not only fun and cute, but great vocabulary builder for new readers. A fantastic attention keeper for storytime and I would recommened getting this book for any young reader, not just preschoolers.

[Kelly]

This is a fun book where you can turn the top half of the book or the bottom half and make strange combinations or normal combinations. For example, the top half might say, "Do you put ice cubes" and the bottom part would say "in your lemonade?" and then you could turn the bottom page and make it instead say "in your bath?"

[Korin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love reading this book to my kindergarten students! It's always hilarious to get their reactions.

me: "Do you like a DUCK on your HEAD?"
kids: "Nooooo-oooo!"
me: "(Boy's name) likes ducks on his head."
Boy: "Nooooo!"

Hehehe.

[Gemma Jones]

Stuck for something entertaining and interactive to read with your kids? This is your book.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book to read out loud to the Preschool group - very silly and there is a million ways to read this book. A great crowd pleaser.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

My daughter discovered this book recently while at the Drs and ask for it the another night so had to buy it! It's a good book and quite funny.

[Megan Mccormick · Rating 5 out of 5]

i loved this book it s so funny and the kids whom i read t to could not stop laughing t all the different combinations