Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler previously brought us The Gruffalo amongst other books. If you liked any of those then you'll like this one too.
The story follows a witch as she flies on her broom, but every once in a while she'll drop something and an animal will find it and want to ride on her broom (which has room). Eventually it breaks and she is confronted by a dragon but thanks to her chums she gets out of that sticky situation.
The story of course is told in the trademark rhyme that Donaldson is famous for. And this time there are accompanying sounds to go with the words. The sounds are activated using the large buttons which have been designed so that little fingers can easily press them. So you have a great witch's laugh for the witch sound, and a not so great plop for when they fall into a bog (sounds like something small getting dropped into water when it should have been a much bigger sound of the witch and her passengers falling from a great height into the sticky bog), but most of the sounds are ok, although some are only used once in the story. Of course you can also use the sounds when not reading the story so it adds something extra there I suppose.
With the buttons it does mean the book is a little wide but I think that is fine as it is still relatively light.
I think this is just as good as the other books Julia Donaldson and Alex Sheffler have done together.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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