Week 1

[Jamie]

1) My very first mother goose, humpty dumpty and other rhymes by Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells
Small children’s book with nine nursery rhymes including humpty dumpty, Hickety Pickety, Little Jack Horner, Davy Davy Dumpling, Little Jumping Joan, Blow wind blow and Horsie Horsie.
2) The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
I love this short story, it’s about the Tailor of Gloucester and he is a poor tailor and he is making a Jacket for the mayors wedding. He gets ill and misses his dead line on the mayors Jacket. Or so he thought. While he was bed ridden the mice of Gloucester go into the tailors shop and finish the jacket for him. While the silly Simpkin cat watches drooling in the window wanting a mouse for supper.
3) Samuels Whiskers by Beatrix Potter
There are three little kittens cause trouble for their mother cat, so mother cat puts them in the cupboard and they get out and hide from mother cat, mittens and moppet hide together but Thomas kitten goes up the chimney and gets lost. He falls into a rat home (Samuel whiskers) and is then is decided to be made into a pudding. But Thomas’s mother is worried and won’t stop looking for him, before it is to late the carpenter saws a hole in the floor to find Thomas and save him from supper.