Little Tiger Press ISBN 9781848694323 £6.99
‘With glitter on every page!’ states a sticker on the front of the book. What’s not to like? This fun picture book tells the tale of Gloria, a rhino who just loves glitter. She cannot get enough of glitter, it’s her ‘favourite colour’ and everywhere she goes she leaves a trail of it in her wake. Everyone who has ever been near a school during the Christmas term will laugh at this book and its accuracy in describing glitter’s tendency to touch everything around it… While the other animals in the town are not impressed by the contagious glitter (and I giggled at the fact that Mr Elephant looked rather glum because he’d got glitter all over his bum) they could not stay angry for long and, of course, in the end happiness spread around the town just like the glitter. While not exactly bursting with plot, and possibly being something of a sensory overload for some young readers, Glitter is nonetheless appealing. Its buoyant language expressed in large, easy to read font with particular words emboldened, and its colourful, beautifully detailed and confident illustrations are rather addictive. And, of course, everything is splattered with glitter!
Laura Manison Shore, Senior Lecturer in Early Years & Primary Education, UWE, Bristol