Alfie's Feet

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It gave me all the feels reading it now as it did back then and I love that my children now share the love too. But Molly slowly discovers her own secret places, new games to play and, when another family move in next door, she also finds two new friends. Shirley Hughes is one of the best known and most popular creators of children's books, and her keen observation of family life have earned her a special place in the hearts of children and adults. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Includes: Alfie Gets in First, Alfie's Feet, An Evening at Alfie's, Alfie Gives a Hand, Alfie and the Big Boys, Alfie Wins a Prize, All About Alfie, Alfie's Christmas, Alfie Outdoors and Alfie and the Birthday Surprise.

Alfie gets a new pair of yellow, shiny rain boots which he stomps, splish, splash and splosh's with in the rain puddles. Alfie gets a brand new pair of yellow wellies so he can splash through puddles and stamp about in the mud. It is an intriguing story and could encourage children to think of their experiences of stamping in muddy puddles and understand Alfie’s feelings of the enjoyment and excitement he may be experiencing. The book would be a good read for reception chickens because it is basic and quite repetitive and simple which could develop the younger readers knowledge. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab .

The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. I remembered reading this to my kids back in the early Nineties and fast forward to now my Granddaughter of Fifteen months loves this book.

She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the first recipient of BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. This gorgeous storybook is full of snapshots of family life, from breakfast to bedtime and from birthdays to walks in the park.And I still do enjoy a bit of puddlejumping although I outgrew my last pair of gumboots far too long ago.

Birthday parties always make people happy and Alfie's neighbour, Mr MacNally, really does need cheering up because their beloved cat, Smoky, has died. She wrote two novels for older children, Hero on a Bicycle, about a 13-year-old Italian boy during the occupation of Florence, and Whistling in the Dark, set during the Liverpool Blitz.Tell us why you liked or disliked the book; using examples and comparisons is a great way to do this.

Her first book - Lucy and Tom's Day - was published in 1960, and she followed it with, among others, Dogger, and the Alfie series. Alfie is very proud of being able to put on his new boots by himself but wonders why they feel funny? Her books include the wordless picture book Up and Up, collection of rhymes and poems Out and About, and for the very young The Nursery Collection.Like all the Alfie books, this one is characterized by Hughes’ detailed, warm renderings of a loving family. The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. Alfie gets out and about in the garden with Dad, in this glorious book about growing, playing and sharing. Shirley Hughes tells this warm reassuring story about moving house with a great understanding of the young child's viewpoint. She also collaborated with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy, on the Dixie O'Day series; which saw Shirley with an illustrator for the first time with Shirley writing the text and Clara creating the illustrations.