Review: Edwina the Emu and The Gruffalo

Edwina the Emu and The Gruffalo

Edwina the Emu told about how a female emu trying to find the job to support her family after she laid 10 eggs while Edward, Edwina’s partner, are asked to stay and to take care of the eggs. She went to town and her hunt for a job begun. She was asked and did every kind of jobs in the town and they did not suit her at all since she is an Emu and on top of that, she is a female. Tired and disappointed, she went to her house and surprised to see the Edward’s tired expression. After that, Edward started looking for the job and Edwina stayed at home to take care of the eggs.

This story is actually short and come with rhyming lines. It is suitable for the children since the writer use a lot of repetitions in the lines and the words are easy to understand because they are simple. Other than that, the illustration also plays an important role in the story. In this story, Edwina and Edward are beautifully illustrated by the illustrator and it is so attractive with a lot of combination of colours on the characters. This book attract a lot reader not only because of the easy words or wonderful rhyming but it also has a lot of colourful characters.

The Gruffalo told about an adventurous journey of a mouse. In his journey, he met a fox, an owl and a snake. Each and every one of the animal has hidden agenda where all of them want to eat him. But, he is a very smart animal whereby he come up with a different answer to each animal, saying that he want to meet his friend Gruffalo who is so big and scary. After each of then hear the explanation, they went off and afraid to see him. During his journey, he really meet his imagination creature; the Gruffalo. The Gruffalo see him and immediately wants to eat him but stop after being told by the mouse that the mouse is a very scary animal and to prove it, the mouse asks the Gruffalo to walk behind him. During the journey, they meet the snake, owl and fox and the entire animal run after see the mouse and Gruffalo. Seeing all the animal runs after see the mouse, the Gruffalo become scared and run to save his life.

This children story comes with very simple words and sentences where like Edwina the Emu, this story also come has rhyming lines. The writer uses the rhyming lines to attract the children and by using these rhyming lines together with a lot of repetition, the children manage to remember the words that have been used in the story. Not only that, the storyline is very easy and children may find it interesting to read. The colourful background and characters in the story also helps to attract the children’s attention to the story. With these colourful and wonderful illustrations, children will not hesitate to grab it and read it.