Mouse Bird Snake Wolf

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I'd recommend it to any junior school pupil, and I'd certainly recommend it to colleagues and friends who are teachers. This has a good moral and will be a great lesson to those who think they can overpower others as well as a great read! The Gods are happy with their creation, they’ve built the sea, sky, mountains and many other magnificent things to fill the earth…but now they are tired and require sleep. No spoilers, but it built tension wonderfully, and I enjoyed what happened to two of the children, as I think children's fiction can sometimes shy away from fully embracing the consequences of a characters actions.

There is the fable like quality to Mouse Bird Snake Wolf which can be found in many of Almond’s works – in particular I found it interesting that the last thing that the children create given that they were free to make anything they wanted was a monstrous wolf.

The narrative alone is a delight to read aloud but the combination of story with illustrations make this work remarkable. I would recommend this book because it has good pictures to go along with the story and really let's you see what is going on in the story.

In 2010 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors.Speaking to my year group partner (assuming it was just my class who didn't like it) in the other class almost all of her class aren't enjoying it at all (26 out of 30).