Everything you want to see by Kyle Hughes-Odgers

A perfect book for young children, Everything you want to see is sure to stimulate their imaginations and give adults and children many different things to talk about. The collection of things that a toddler might like to see range from the very familiar: dog and house, to a tiger in a car and an alien playing an electric guitar. In an article Hughes-Odgers tells how his young children inspired this board book with ideas of things for him to draw and the things that he has put into his board book are certainly ones that my grandson will love to see in a book. What young children isn’t fascinated by a dinosaur, a happy mouse, and Lego trucks, not to mention star glow and a bin that stinks? It also is a lovely read aloud with some interactive questions (a lion’s roar! Too scary?), and rhyming couplets,  

A tiny flea
a boat on the sea

All the objects are beautifully illustrated with bright oranges, dark khakis, and vivid reds, and all are easy to identify. Some pictures are very humorous, like the gorilla with a banana on his head and a giant cake with a ladder leading up to the top, while other illustrations are very small and will need a keen eye to see the object featured, like the tiny flea and the little fairy.

The use of knowledge of everyday things interspersed with amazing imaginative objects beautifully blends the familiar with the imagination. This sturdy board book will be a treat for any child lucky to have it.

Themes: Imagination.

Pat Pledger