Picture Book Review : Picture Day Perfection

Picture Day Perfection – Deborah Dieson

The boy telling this story is planning for his version of the best school photo ever!  He doesn’t want a nice photo like his mum wants, and this story shows how he plans to achieve that.  He goes to extremes to make sure that he looks terrible.

He finally thinks he has worked out how to make it the best ever ‘worst’ school photo – but it doesn’t quite work out how he imagines! 

You can read this book or you can watch it on – Read Aloud Story for Kids on YouTube.

Note: Don’t let any boys who are about to have school photos done read this book – they do like a challenge, and some of his techniques are even better than just crossing your eyes.

Picture Book Review: There's a Lion in my Cornflakes

There’s a lion in my cornflakes – Michelle Robinson

A fantastic story about two brothers who are saving up coupons from their cornflake packets to get a free Lion! 

Things don’t go quite so well.  They have to save 100 coupons, which means they have to buy 100 packets of cornflakes using their pocket money– and of course mum says they must eat every last crunchy flake.

Mum gets a bit grumpy about it all, and the boys get very grumpy when the cornflake company runs out of lions and send a substitute!

It’s a really funny book, good humour and great illustrations by Jim Field.  Kids and adults will love it.