Mrs Wobble the Waitress [Happy Families Series]

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This fun, well illustrated story would perhaps be suitable for slightly older readers in late Year 2 to Year 4. Children will like this book as they will enjoy finding out what silly things happen next thanks to Mrs Wobble wobbling!

Incredible artwork makes this an ideal year 2 book for imaginative storytelling, especially with emerging readers. The highly engaging text will appeal to both emerging and reluctant readers, and the punchy dialogue is ideal to read aloud in a classroom. A good source of ideas for creative writing story starters, this book is a useful text to build a short year 2 literacy around.This is a more advanced short chapter book for independent and greater-depth readers in year 2, and also a captivating and page-turning choice for a teacher to read aloud to the class. Art teachers will see lots of opportunities to inspire pastel work using the illustrations as an impetus.

A little boy turns up on the doorstep of Old Bob and his wife Joan, and when asked where he came from, says: “I was a rat! Mrs Wobble eventually gets the sack after an episode where she dropped a jelly and it landed on her manager's head. When their father takes them on holiday to a huge country house, they embark on adventures none of them will ever forget. At home, Clarice has to put up with her annoying younger brother, a really moody older brother, and a grandfather who pours soup on his cornflakes. Traditional fairy tales, such as Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs are reworked in these extremely funny stories about a wolf who has some trouble making pancakes.Full of snot, slime, smells, and much revoltingness, this book is bound to appeal to reluctant readers in year 2. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. BOOK OF THE MONTH - the much awaited latest installment in this popular diary-style series for ages 7+. With picture books, poetry, first readers, and chapter books, there’s wide variety titles to appeal to of children in KS1 year 2 classes in UK primary schools. Atmospheric and poignant, and with rich and poetic language, this is an excellent text to build a year 2 literacy unit around.