We love books in this house and we also love eating sandwiches so it was perfect to be sent a copy of Sammy and the Skyscraper Sandwich to review.
This beautifully illustrated story book is a pleasure to read because it captivates and engages the reader and the children that he/she is reading it to, because of the wonderful images on every page. The pictures are almost retro in style and remind me of cartoons from my own childhood. I adore them!
The story is about Sammy who decided one day that he was very hungry
and *that* is exactly what he does. He builds a sandwich so tall that is ends up taller than his own house.
As the story unfolds, the narrative describes all the fillings Sammy uses to make his skyscraper sandwich and includes some fabulous bright and colourful drawings showing every one of them too.
Asides from the gorgeous illustrations, I also really like the fact that the font is easy to read and large enough for Burton to start reading and recognising some words, especially as the various fillings are accompanied with matching pictures.
The book gives you lots of ideas for some weird and wonderful sandwich fillings, and Burton and Jenson’s favourites are very bog standard in comparison to Sammy’s:
Burton – marmite
Jenson – ham and cheese
Both boys have decided in the last week that they like their sandwiches presented in the following ways:
Burton and Jenson really enjoyed this book – the pages are big and made from thick board card so is very durable to little inquisitive book worms and therefore perfect for reading again and again. Burton was fascinated by all the illustartions and he could not believe the size of the finished sandwich and started to imagine what would happen if the skyscraper sandwich came out of the book and on to our table!! Which just goes to show the amazing and wacky insight into a young childs imagination, which is relfected lots of times in the story like when a boy just happens to be passing by Sammy’s house in a hot air balloon!
To whet the appetitie of your child’s imagination, Sammy and the Skyscraper Sandwich by Lorraine Francis and published by Book Island, is a wonderful read and for more information on where it is available to buy please visit Amazon or The Book Depository.
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GIVE AWAY
I have 5 copies of Sammy and the Skyscraper Sandwich to give away and all you need to do to be in with a chnace of winning a copy yourself is to fill in the form below. Closing date is Monday 18th November, 2013 at 12.00am
Disclaimer: I was sent a copy of the book for the purpose of the review. All comments made about it are honest and my own
Chicken mayo x
Honey roast ham and mustard
Cheese and Onion
Cheese & pickle
Lemon curd and cheese
chicken and stuffing
I love Tuna with Salad cream and red onions, cherry tomatoes, red peppers and lettuce!
Cheese and tomato
Mozzarella,tomato, basil and chilli oil. Mmmm
cheese and salad
Dh makes the best sandwiches: Schwarzwalder Ham and avocado on oat bread with Plum Chutney: they are delicious. But I quite like Marmite on white bread if he isn’t around 🙂
cant beat marmite x
Wensleydale cheese with beetroot.
Cheese salad
Cheese and pickled onion
Tuna Mayonnaise
Cheese and pickle!
bacon and brie
Ham,cheese and colsaw
Roasted cherry tomatoes with mozzarella cheese and fresh basil
Marmite. Yum!
ham and salad
Ham and gouda cheese on a multiseed ciabatta, yum.x
Chicken, Stuffing with Salad Cream!
Scrambled egg and chorizo
Without a doubt beef and horseradish! x
Turkey
Cheese, ground pepper and mayo!
Ham salad.
Cream cheese and salami
chicken and bacon
Cheese and bacon
Ham & cheese.
vegetable wrap with sweet chilli sauce mmmmmm
Bacon, lettuce, Tomato
tuna
Tuna Mayo
Bacon and tomato sauce mmmmmmm
Bacon
Tuna Sweetcorn and Mayo 🙂 xx
Cheese with salad
Bacon and Mushroom
Cheese and onion
banana and philadelphia
Egg mayo
Smoked salmon with lemon
Chicken Mayonnaise
I love cheese and onion, with watercress (not sure other people love my breath after though!)
Peanut butter and marmite
ps. My nephew is Sam…he LOVES cheese sandwiches. I’ll probably buy this book for him anyway if I don’t win – thanks for reviewing it.
he will love it – its really lovely and my two enjoy it very much x
veggie cheese and red onion
egg mayonnaise
Ham and mayonaise
chicken salad
cream cheese and cucumber
BBQ chicken
Chicken mayo
Ham 😀
BLT
Egg mayo with plenty of black pepper
Love coronation chicken 🙂
Cheese & Onion is my favourite 🙂
Cheese and Tomatoes with Salad Cream!
cheese and marmite. in triangles. very important that last point.
jam!
cheese and onion
Cheese with Sandwich Spread….. unbeatable
Tuna, mayo and red pepper
Chicken, bacon and wholegrain mustard mayo 🙂
Smoked salmon and soft cheese
Naughty – Bacon and Egg 🙂
egg mayo
coronation chicken x
Coronation chicken (WITH sultanas not without!) on nice thick crusty bread with some salad and cucumber!
potted beef and smoky bacon crisps
Nutella. Maybe some banana too. Now i’m hungry ….
Chicken, lettuce and salad cream.
Chicken mayo and salad
Egg mayo and red onion
Ham and cream cheese! 🙂
Smoked salmon
Tuna Mayo
Egg mayo
chicken and bacon with lettuce
EGG MAYO AND BACON NUMMY
chicken sweetcorn mayo
Smoked Salmon
chicken bacon mushroom
Cockral ,lettuce, mayonaise and black pepper …. looking forward to christmas day evening already !!
Ham and Pickle