The Foggy Foggy Forest

written and illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Candlewick Press, 2008

Genre: Children's picture book;fiction

Reading Level: ages 3-8

24 pages

The Foggy Foggy Forest is a picture book about some fantastic characters "lurking" in the forest. Each page first asks "What can this be in a foggy, foggy forest?" and thanks to the semi transparent paper, the reader can see the outline of the character and what they're doing, so they can make a guess. Then turn the page and there's a line about the character and what it is doing. For example the first page says, ""A little elf all by himself." The creatures range from Cinderella to an ogre, to "Three brown bears in picnic chairs." The story ends with the last page which has travelling fair, and it says "hooray!"

I would recommend this for any young child.

I can think of no controversy that would come from this book.

I really enjoyed this book. The semi transparent paper really added a cool and unique element. The words were rhyming and creative and I can really see how a child would have reading them, and listen to them being read.

My rating: 5 out of 5