Back to food again. I’ve written more about poetry recently, but there are plenty of children’s books written in verse that turn a pretty poetic phrase of their own.
The Giant Jam Sandwich is one of my childhood favourites. I’m sure it deserves its own proper Lit Kid post one day. By way of rapid precis, imagine a town inflicted with wasps – and finding a novel solution for trapping them.
The verse still bounces along well, even if the pictures look a little more dated now. Junior Reader lapped it up still, as did I, particularly excited about securing my own copy again.
But what I want to share with you is the ending of the book, where the giant jam sandwich is borne away by birds, holding the edges of the enormous table cloth that the sandwich rested on.
Na razie!
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“…So the birds flew off with it in their beaks
And had a feast for a thousand weeks.”
John Vernon Lloyd and Janet Burroway