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EYE SUPPLEMENT Picturebook Reviews: Fascinating Facts

Meg Barclay, education consultant and early years reviewer for the School Library Association, reviews all non-fiction books this month for Non-Fiction November, which celebrates all things relating to information books and reading for information

By Molly Littleboy

Illustrated by David Semple

Tiger Tales

September 2024, pp12, £7.99

9781664351288

Reading age: 2-5 years

A lovely robust board book which will delight readers with all things about fire engines. Each double page showcases different aspects of fire engines, with topics themed around the various jobs and uses of fire engines, including Ready Steady Go, Fighting Fires, All in a Day’s Work and Our Heroes.

The information is simple yet informative, broken down into accessible sections with bold text headers for each page. The clear text will support vocabulary acquisition, with longer sentences also to extend understanding for more advanced readers.

Lovely illustrations reinforce understanding with simple, diagram-like labelling highlighting the nouns associated with fire engines.

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