Room on the Broom (Picture Puffins) Paperback – Picture Book, 1 Aug. 2003

Wonderful book. I got this as a copy to keep at our house for when my granddaughter is here. They have the board book but I like this more. It’s not as resilient as the board book but she is really gentle with books, considering she is only 16 months. She’s absolutely obsessed with this book and will read it again and again. She does all the actions and points to the broom, the hat etc.the illustrations are really funny and engaging. Brilliant.

Lovely version of a well loved book. My son enjoys the push pull and slide features

Lovely story book, much loved y my granddaughter. Very well illustrated.

My daughter loves it. 3yo

This is the story of a good-natured witch and her contented, purring, cat flying through the air on a broomstick without a care in the world - until the wind blows away the witch's hat. When they fly down to retrieve the hat, a polite, helpful dog brings it to them and becomes another passenger on the broom. Throughout the book they also pick up a bird and a frog, making the broom very overcrowded. Then disaster strikes; the broom snaps in two causing the witch to become separated from her friends and a potential meal to a large red dragon.This is an extremely eye catching and appealing book aimed at preschool and lower primary school children. Donaldson and Schefflers story and illustrations work extremely well together to capture children's attention right from the start of the book. The use of illustration mixed through the large, bold, font makes it seem friendly to a beginner reader. But this is essentially a book for sharing, the use of repetition throughout the story encourages children to join in the reading and the book appeals to their sense of humour with comical allusions:"I'm planning to have WITCH AND CHIPS for my tea". Julia Donaldson has also made a song to accompany the book that children can enjoy singing and performing to.This is a fantastic book and I cannot recommend it enough.

My small grandson just loves this book he has the cat dog bird frog bow wand hat and broomstick he is only 20 months but he can tell what comes next.

Excellent product

As an Early Years teacher Julia Donaldson’s childrens’ books are typically a joy. There’s a bit of variety in age/stage targeting, but regular themes include sharing; working together; tricksiness, where an often smaller underdog/s succeed in duping larger, ill-intentioned foes; determination; and the avoidance of stereotypes. I love many, and how well kids (both friends/family, and pupils) respond to them. Books that draw kids in are always a good thing.But ‘Room On the Broom’ remains my personal favourite. If for nothing more than the audacious similarity substitution of ‘witch’ for ‘fish (in ‘fish and chips’)!This book is a bit more complicated in structure than ‘The Gruffalo’, but although meetings are largely between friendly, collaborative entities (until a dragon is encountered) the story has some similar themes: a progressive journey; encounters with different creatures; and a life-threatening encounter with a mythical beast – in this case resolved by creative collaboration between friends rather than individual rapid-thinking against a series of potential adversaries.This is a lovely book to read aloud (I’ve always given the dragon the Welsh valleys accent of my late grandparents – the dragon is red, like the one on the Welsh flag) and has beautiful illustrations that stand up well to being shown to a group when reading. Perfect for preschool through to early primary.