Monday 12 May 2014

Lottie And Dottie Sow Carrots Early Reader Book Review

Lottie And Dottie Sow Carrots is our latest from the Orion Books Early Readers in the blue band. The Early Readers are available in two bands. Blue band is for children who are ready to join in reading and following words with another person, and red band is for children who are more confident to read alone.

Lottie and Dottie Sow Carrots Early Reader Orion Books Review

Lottie And Dottie Sow Carrots is written by Claire Burgess (of the fabulous gardening blog Claire's Allotment) and illustrated by Marijke van Veldhoven. I wasn't sure from the title how my 4 and 5 year old boys would react.

Lottie and Dottie Sow Carrots Early Reader Orion Books age 5

Actually, it turns out this is possibly our favourite book so far! It has mild peril and excitement and it's written mainly in dialogue between the 2 sisters, which means reading is really exciting with all the intonation and animation in the voices.



The story is the tale of 2 sisters who sow some carrots, but it's so beautifully written and informative that it genuinely fascinated my little boys. The illustrations are lovely and the characters have very sweet expressive faces, with the little sister always looking inquisitive and a little worried until the end.


This is a great book, and afterwards your child will understand a lot more about gardening and growing plants, or they will have had that knowledge reinforced without even realising. I'd heartily recommend it.

Lottie And Dottie Sow Carrots has an RRP of £4.99 and is published by Orion Books.

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We were sent our Lottie and Dottie book for review.

7 comments:

  1. these early reader books are such good fun. Looks like your son enjoyed it!

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    1. He really did - and he took it to bed to read to himself tonight :)

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  2. That is a lovely book to read.

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    1. It is very good Eileen, really a nice book and very informative :)

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  3. Glad to hear your boys enjoyed it as much as Monkey, we have followed the instructions and are waiting for our carrots to sprout!

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  4. I'm so glad that you're enjoying my little book. There's a new one coming next year in May, but I'm not going to tell you what they're growing in that one yet, it's a surprise. Happy gardening, Claire xx

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    1. Awww, thank you! I've just been tipped off by Ian - I guess you have too! Small world :D
      It's lovely that you like my review, I do think it's a lovely book and it'll be nice to see what they grow next. Thank you very much for commenting :)

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