SuitabookJelly Boots, Smelly Boots
Michael Rosen, illustrated by David Tazzyman
- Reading
- Choose one or two poems at a time, read them aloud, and invite the child to join repeated phrases or invent alternatives. Let them skip poems that do not hold their attention.
- Themes
- Language, sound and nonsense: The poems celebrate new, old, family-used and funny words, with examples built around repeated sounds and rhymes. The book presents this favourably.
- Everyday life and family: The book addresses everyday life and family; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. These settings appear as material for poems rather than as one continuous story or single argument.
- Memory and growing older: One poem is described as touching, involving very old people remembering when they were children. Memory and age are treated as subjects for reflection within at least one story poem.
- Worth knowing
- Some pieces are plainly silly, while others are described as touching or thought-provoking. Pay attention to whether a child enjoys the shifts between comic nonsense, family material and more reflective poems.