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Riddle rhymes, protective siblings and imaginative clothing feature in this month's books reviewed by Alison Boyle Riggledy Piggledy

Riggledy Piggledy

written by Tony Mitton and illustrated by Paddy Mounter

(David Fickling, 12.99)

This lovely book takes favourite nursery rhymes, which there's no beating for familiarity, and adds a note of freshness. Newly-written rhyming puzzles gently shoehorn the reader into the text of the traditional rhyme that follows. Children may be able to solve the puzzles before turning the page.

For example, the new Sneeze-Up rhyme goes: 'Lots of roses arranged in a ring/And a box of tissues/What a strange thing!' Here the picture shows a tissue paper aeroplane zooming from a box of tissues. Under this picture is the prompt common to all rhyme puzzle pages: 'What's the answer? Let me see.../Have a think. Now, what can it be...?' Turn over the page and you find the Ring-a-Ring o' Roses traditional rhyme.

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