The Adventures Of The Dish And The Spoon

Quick delivery and well packagedLovely story loosely linked to characters from Hey Diddle Diddle. The illustrations are great as they add extra detail to the story. I used it as a guided reading text with Y2/3 children.

I discovered this in the library with my then 3 year-old son, and he loved it.The illustrations are great - really unusual, yet engaging and the story is great. My son thought it was hilarious at the end when Dish and Spoon were reunited, and Dish is self-conscious. I thought it was beautiful, and it still brings a tear to my eye!

This is hilarious and also sweet. The adventure the dish and spoon go on is exciting and surprising. Beautifully illustrated.

A strangely dark little story with a bittersweet ending...not the sort of story i would usually choose for a four year old, but after getting it from the library and loving it, my son asked for his own copy. It is a regular if unusual bedtime read.

A sassy little book with great illustrations. It tells the story of what happens when the dish ran away with the spoon and their roller coaster life of show-biz, crime and redemption. Great material for class work. A really good scheme of work is available through Take one Book/Just Imagine website.

A super book! Children have loved finding out what happened after the dish ran away with the spoon!

This is the weirdest children's book I have ever read - I think it appeals more to adults than children. It's a very strange story WARNING Spolier ahead - it has the dish and the spoon, take up gambling, commit armed robbery, get into debt with money lenders and then end up in jail. Bit of an odd story to tell kids, yes I love the movie references as an adult and I love the poetry of the writing but not sure it's something which my baby will grow to love but only time will tell!

Very good book for inference

Follow the "new and improved" adventures of dish and spoon as they experience supreme highs and dreadful lows. But fear not, gentle reader - love conquers all.

My son loves this book!!! We were checking it out at the library for a year, before we realized that we could buy it on Amazon! A great children's book!

さすがケイト･グリーナウェイ賞受賞作です!!　マザーグース"Hey Diddle Diddle"をパロディー化し、さらに人生の機微をも色々と感じさせる作品となっています。

This is an odd children's book. It's enjoyable, but it always feels a bit off kilter. My son absolutely loved it and we read it to him over and over and over.

The illustrations in this story are just as engaging as those in Mini Grey's "Biscuit Bear", but this story seems to be missing parts. The story jumps from one part to another without clear and sensible transitions, as if chapters are missing (if this were a longer story). Perhaps the author presupposes that the reader knows more about the nursery rhyme than actually exists, but more detail in the story would be necessary to make this story even half as well-developed as it should be to deserve the fantastic illustrations. I would not recommend this book for parents who like a good, well-developed storyline, but instead you should look for "Biscuit Bear" by the same author.