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Ik Wil Een Knuffel (2011)

by David Melling(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Van Goor

review 1: First of all let me start by saying I loved this book. I fell instantly in love with the illustrations. Douglas is pudgy, burly and very adorable. He is a young brown bear who wakes up one morning with a big yawn and feels he really, really needs a hug. His hug "adventure" leads him to embrace a hard, old bolder, (which is too big and heavy), a tall hug from a tree (which is inadequate) and a comfy hug from a bushy bush (stuffed with hidden sheep). Still dissatisfied that he has yet to achieve his perfect hug, he sticks his arm down a rabbit hole, pulls the rabbit forth and hugs....nope, that doesn't do it for him either. The wise rabbit takes Douglas by his paw and and leads him to a familiar deep, dark cave where someone he knows is just waking up. Who could it be... more? Could his perfect hug be awaiting him? Can you guess who it may be? A clue is that it is someone Douglas knows very, very well and gives him his best hugs ever!!!David Melling includes a quirky and fun glossary of different styles of hugs in the back of the book which you and a partner may want to try out. Have a hug-a-thon and laugh and giggle together.You can also get a "Hugless Douglas" app. It is one of the most popular apps for pre-schoolers and you can get it on iTunes. It's interactive version will sure to be a hit with your child. There are two modes: The "Read to Me" mode eliminates tap-to-touch interactions and plays like a video. The "Read by Myself" mode allows a child to control interactions and page turning. (There is not the ability to touch a word to have it read aloud). One more feature is that, on many pages, when you tap on an object, its name is said aloud. The artwork, music and narration are fantastic.
review 2: Hugless Douglas by David Melling is a book about a lovable young bear that wakes up one morning in need of a hug. So Douglas goes out in search for the perfect one, but as he begins to hug things he realises none of them seem quite right. On his journey to find the perfect hug, Douglas hugs a huge rock, bushes, sheep, a rabbit, and by the end of the book, Douglas is taken to a big cave, and when he goes inside he sees his mum and hugs her.David Melling is one of the leading children’s authors and illustrators today, and through his book Hugless Douglas we are given an insight into yet another lovable character that children fall in love with. The illustrations in the book are very intricate and imaginative which appeals to children very easily. An aspect which really stood out for me about this book were the adjectives which were used, this is a really good way to help children to start using adjectives in their writing. Douglas experiments with different types of hugs. He starts off with BIG hugs (clasping a large rock) a TALL hug (hugging and climbing a tree) and a comfy hug (a bush). But the bush resists his hugs, sprouted legs and ran away.I read this book to my year one class, and they loved it, hence I will definitely say this book is aimed at key stage one children. I used this book for my Literacy lesson and found that I could carry out many follow up activities. After reading the book to my class, I asked them to talk with their partners to describe what Douglas looks like, I then asked them to think about Douslas’ personality and describe it. Another activity I carried out was for the children to rewrite the story but to change the character of Douglas and put themselves in the story. The images and words fit together well, it was good that some of the words were in different fonts to support the reader. The children loved the anthology of hugs at the back of the book. This was a lovely book to read with children. less

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