A Wonderful Wood by Elizabeth Davies & Lily Fossett – The Strawberry Post
A book review of a fun and visually striking picture book for babies, all about a set of woodland animals travelling to a special event.
About A Wonderful Wood by Elizabeth Davies & Lily Fossett
Title: A Wonderful Wood
Author: Elizabeth Davies
Illustrator: Lily Fossett
Publisher: Kennedy Publishing
Genre: Very young children’s/baby picture book
Book format reviewed: Paperback
Sweet Strawberries: 
Description: Embark on a beautiful journey with the creatures of A Wonderful Wood, through winding rivers and snowy mountains, to prepare for hibernation.
This is a story that brings the universal benefits of rhythmical reading with high-contrast illustrations to support early visual development.
*Free copy provided for review…
My review and thoughts on A Wonderful Wood
This is a fun baby book with some striking illustrations. In the Wonderful Wood lives a bear, a snake, a hedgehog, a squirrel and a raccoon and every year the five make their way to a great Feast. But to get there they must travel a long way, through rivers, caves and past lakes and more, what will happen when they reach the great Feast? This paperback is filled with thick glossy pages of some fun illustrations and text.
The book begins by introducing the five animals before every double page then shows them travelling over different terrain and areas, all to get to where they are going. I like how these pages show these areas, with the fun descriptions of every area, like the river being described as ‘wiggling and wide’, with every area having describing words that fit the place and can help kids learn these and feel these words too through reading. The book eventually shows us what happens when the animals arrive before finishing in a nice way too.
The illustrations really bring this story to life, with most of the pages being in black and white but with some colour on every double page giving it a very striking look. A lot of the pictures also have some interesting shapes used like the shape of the mountains making it another visually striking part of the tale. This is a book aimed at children up to the age of five and as a result I believe the illustrations matter more than the text, which although good, I do believe the ending could have been better as it just felt like the story didn’t really know how to finish, but maybe that’s just me. Overall a lovely baby book though I would have loved a better ending.
What do you think of this book? What visually striking books do you like? Let me know what you think in the comments below 🙂
