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Who is It?
Familiar fairy tales are presented in an exciting and fresh manner that will delight and entertain young children. Featuring well-loved fairy tale characters and a surprise ending, this is the perfect interactive read-aloud story young children will ask for again and again.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2000
About the author
Sally Grindley
255 books50 followersI came into children's books originally as Editorial Director of a nationwide children's book club, though I had written and directed a children's play while a student at Sussex University, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. I wrote my first two children's picture books in 1984 and was lucky enough that Anthony Browne wanted to illustrate the second - Knock Knock Who's There? It was published in 1985, is still going strong today and is one of my most successful.
Shhh! was published in 1991 and has known great success in France/Belgium in particular (close on 300,000 copies sold). It's success in the UK - it won the Children's Book Award - was hampered by the liquidation of its original publisher.
I became a full-time author in 1995 and now have some 150+ titles published, the most recent being L'Histoire du Soir in France, Belgium and Italy.
Feather Wars, published in 2003, was my first sortie into young fiction and was followed by the very successful Spilled Water, which has been published in some ten different languages and is very popular in schools as a class reader. It won the Nestle Smarties Gold Award (and I wound up being a 'Pointless' answer on the back of it!) Broken Glass came next and was a Sunday Times Book of the Week.
I'm currently working on picture books again and have plans to illustrate one of my own in the not too distant future - watch this space!
Shhh! was published in 1991 and has known great success in France/Belgium in particular (close on 300,000 copies sold). It's success in the UK - it won the Children's Book Award - was hampered by the liquidation of its original publisher.
I became a full-time author in 1995 and now have some 150+ titles published, the most recent being L'Histoire du Soir in France, Belgium and Italy.
Feather Wars, published in 2003, was my first sortie into young fiction and was followed by the very successful Spilled Water, which has been published in some ten different languages and is very popular in schools as a class reader. It won the Nestle Smarties Gold Award (and I wound up being a 'Pointless' answer on the back of it!) Broken Glass came next and was a Sunday Times Book of the Week.
I'm currently working on picture books again and have plans to illustrate one of my own in the not too distant future - watch this space!
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December 6, 2012
About the book: An exciting read-aloud book turns classic fairy tales upside down and lets youngsters join in the fun. Children will be eager to shout out the answers to the question "Who Is It?" and to warn the unsuspecting characters about what's going to happen next.
But young readers will also be thrilled to find out there's a big surprise in store for them, too!
Review: Parents have long shared the classic fairy tales of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Billy Goat Gruff, Little Red Riding Hood, etc. through the years. Kiddies love them. Sometimes we as parents take a few liberties with the tale to make it fit our personal ideas and ideals as well as that of our child.
In Who Is It? author Grindley doesn't really tell the stories. She has created a parent/child guessing game of "Who Is it?" with clues from which the child is to identify the story. An interesting concept and one that many parents and children will thoroughly enjoy.
The book is illustrated with vivid, bold stroke art colored richly in the primary colors. The illustrations of the story characters are cute and boldly engaging.
I can visualize parents having giggly fun with their child with this book and the child requesting the Who Is It? game repeatedly. I personally would not use this at bedtime because sensitive children might feel threatened just prior to falling asleep. The same sensitive child could easily engage with the story/game without difficulties an another time in the day. (rev VHG)
About the author & illustrator: Sally Grindley is the author of numerous books for children. She lives in England.You can visit Sally Grindley’s website here. Rosalind Beardshaw has illustrated numerous books for children. She lives in England.
DISCLOSURE: A complimentary copy of Who Is It? was provided by Peachtree Publishers on behalf of the author to facilitate our honest review.
But young readers will also be thrilled to find out there's a big surprise in store for them, too!
Review: Parents have long shared the classic fairy tales of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Billy Goat Gruff, Little Red Riding Hood, etc. through the years. Kiddies love them. Sometimes we as parents take a few liberties with the tale to make it fit our personal ideas and ideals as well as that of our child.
In Who Is It? author Grindley doesn't really tell the stories. She has created a parent/child guessing game of "Who Is it?" with clues from which the child is to identify the story. An interesting concept and one that many parents and children will thoroughly enjoy.
The book is illustrated with vivid, bold stroke art colored richly in the primary colors. The illustrations of the story characters are cute and boldly engaging.
I can visualize parents having giggly fun with their child with this book and the child requesting the Who Is It? game repeatedly. I personally would not use this at bedtime because sensitive children might feel threatened just prior to falling asleep. The same sensitive child could easily engage with the story/game without difficulties an another time in the day. (rev VHG)
About the author & illustrator: Sally Grindley is the author of numerous books for children. She lives in England.You can visit Sally Grindley’s website here. Rosalind Beardshaw has illustrated numerous books for children. She lives in England.
DISCLOSURE: A complimentary copy of Who Is It? was provided by Peachtree Publishers on behalf of the author to facilitate our honest review.
March 4, 2011
A fun twist on all the classic fairytales. This book uses large writing, good for beginning readers, and the pictures are large and exciting as well. A simple book, yet fun and a good read to allow students to notice all the different fairytales and characters that are combined into one.
August 8, 2017
I thought this would be a great introduction to fairy tales for toddlers and preschoolers! I have always loved fairy tales, but most of them are way too long to share at storytime, even the rewritten ones, but now I have one! ;-)
May 24, 2012
Reduces our children's fairy tales to pictures and fewer than 50 words...too sad.
April 18, 2013
Oo, I want to use this in a fairy tale program!!!
November 1, 2013
I was amazed at how hard this book was for most of the kids. It would probably be much better if it were read one-on-one.
March 27, 2014
The reader is asked to identify fairy tale heroes and villains from clues in the text and illustrations.
July 16, 2014
I always love reading fairy tales. This would be a great book to do a story basket with that way the child could get a visual perspective of what is being talked about.
November 4, 2025
I keep trying with the fairy-tale-adjacent but they keep not quite working.
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