The Boy Who Ate Himself by Colin Cardwell

This tale is a hilarious one. I had a giggle.
The book is called 'The Boy Who Ate Himself' which describes the whole plot of the story. The story begins by telling the reader that it is a horrific story and it is the scariest book on the bookshelf.

From the initial page it seems as thought the story is being told in the perspective of the creatures living under Harold's (the main character) bed.

Cardwell has utilised the method of rhyme to make his story flow and has displayed a wide vocabulary to challenge the directed age range of 4-5 year old children.

"An enormous gulp
          and his bottom had vanished,
   Harold Bartholomew
          was still feeling famished."

The story is highly fictional, a story about a boy eating himself due to his hate for eating vegetables is not realistic.
The author reinforces the coda of the story in the last few pages of the book when he tells about how Harold woke from the dream of eating himself and began to eat all his vegetables instead of junk food. This book would be a fantastic, intriguing resource for introducing young children to the topic of healthy eating and the concepts regarding healthy living.

The illustrations from this book are just fantastic, below is a page extract demonstrating the illustrative work of Tony Lowe.

By EmmaWindebank