Row Your Boat
Digital version – browse, print or download
Can't see the preview?
Click here!
How to print the digital edition of Books for Keeps: click on this PDF file link - click on the printer icon in the top right of the screen to print.
BfK Newsletter
Receive the latest news & reviews direct to your inbox!
Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from Mick Inkpen’s new picture book, Bear. Mick Inkpen is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. Thanks to Hodder Children’s Books for their help in producing this November cover.
PDF
Printer-friendly version
Send to friend
Row Your Boat
Stephen Lambert
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the steam Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. Goodhart has expanded the well known rhyme to take two young voyagers across the sea to an exotic island in this picture book. A frisson of shock is felt as a lion emerges from the jungle undergrowth, but all is well as the sea changes back to a stream and the island to a pastoral landscape. Goodhart and Lambert's gentle words and lambent double page spreads offer to very young onlookers adventure and freedom encapsulated within a dream.