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This book the wonky donkey is brilliant my 2 year old Grandson loves it. I would highly recommend for young children. Many Thanks Irene x
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I was hoping to use this with children for the rhyming, but the language isn’t suitable. It’s basically an ‘amusing’ picture book based on forced rhyme. It was first published in New Zealand where, I assume, the language is used differently (ditto Australia) but it isn’t suitable for UK children. Using “wonky” in the context of a prosthetic leg isn’t a good start, then showing a bird carrying his missing eye is fairly horrific for “winky”. I can only imagine the barrage of questions that would follow this image! “Honky-Tonky” means nothing to children, so that doesn’t work at all. If you have to give in-depth explanations to explain the ‘joke’, it falls flat. “Lanky” is all well and good, but not when you’re trying to build self-esteem and avoid labels based on appearance. They have enough of that to deal with. I know children and adolescents love fart jokes (“stinky-dinky”) but it would cause so much distraction, it wouldn’t be worth it. “Hanky-panky” is used to describe “getting up to mischief”, but In the UK, it’s much more associated with sexual shenanigans, so inappropriate. The same goes for “spunky”, which may be used in New Zealand to mean “good looking”, but is not in common use here and is, again, quite sexualised. Shame. Maybe I should write my own. Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Bought this for my 2 year old grandson. Such a wonderful book to share with a child of any age. Repetitive story lines are great for little ones to catch on to the story. You just can’t help laughing. The book is beautifully illustrated and fabulous quality which is just as well as I have a feeling this will get lots and lots of use. Had to read this 6 times on its first outing at my grandson’s bedtime.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I thought it was funny, but after reading it a few times it gets annoying ,my four year old granddaughter was frightened by the donkeys picture and said he had scary eyes and we have now had to hide the book, bought the others in the series too
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
My 3 year old granddaughter loved the book so much she told her 6 year old brother about it and he wanted to hear the story so they both watched the Scottish grandmother reading it online and laughed all the way through
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