Room on the Broom: the perfect story for Halloween Board book – 6 April 2017

Lovely story book, much loved y my granddaughter. Very well illustrated.

Lovely version of a well loved book. My son enjoys the push pull and slide features

My daughter loves it. 3yo

Beautiful childrens book with lovely rhyms and illustrations.

My small grandson just loves this book he has the cat dog bird frog bow wand hat and broomstick he is only 20 months but he can tell what comes next.

This is my absolute favourite Julia Donaldson book. I love the story and the flow of the rhymes. It is a joy to read!

As an Early Years teacher Julia Donaldson’s childrens’ books are typically a joy. There’s a bit of variety in age/stage targeting, but regular themes include sharing; working together; tricksiness, where an often smaller underdog/s succeed in duping larger, ill-intentioned foes; determination; and the avoidance of stereotypes. I love many, and how well kids (both friends/family, and pupils) respond to them. Books that draw kids in are always a good thing.But ‘Room On the Broom’ remains my personal favourite. If for nothing more than the audacious similarity substitution of ‘witch’ for ‘fish (in ‘fish and chips’)!This book is a bit more complicated in structure than ‘The Gruffalo’, but although meetings are largely between friendly, collaborative entities (until a dragon is encountered) the story has some similar themes: a progressive journey; encounters with different creatures; and a life-threatening encounter with a mythical beast – in this case resolved by creative collaboration between friends rather than individual rapid-thinking against a series of potential adversaries.This is a lovely book to read aloud (I’ve always given the dragon the Welsh valleys accent of my late grandparents – the dragon is red, like the one on the Welsh flag) and has beautiful illustrations that stand up well to being shown to a group when reading. Perfect for preschool through to early primary.

In my humble opinion this blows the Gruffalo out of the water, it is my absolute favourite and my daughter who is only 5 month will stay awake until the end of the book and pass out, she smiles at this book more than any others.