Meg and Mog

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I was expecting more character development, more emotional angst - but there's nothing at stake here, nothing driving the tension. Personally, I love the way the text has a’ life on its own’ and it is structured differently on each page; sometimes it walks down the stairs or it’s hidden under a rug. After working together for four years, they decided it was time to preserve their creativity in book form for future generations of children to enjoy.

Meg and Mog - Penguin Books UK

The bestselling MEG and MOG stories have been casting a unique spell for more than thirty-five years.

She gets ready to go out to a party, then goes to the party and the witches at the party all cast a spell, the spell goes wrong and turns the rest of the witches into mice (inexplicably sparing Meg herself), and the Meg's cat Mog chases the mice.

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I’m currently on a children’s literature kick as a part of a Writing for Children course, starting out with a focus on picture books. The children’s author and illustrator Shoo Rayner added: “Sad news – Jan Pieńkowski was an inspiration to me when I was starting out. I don't know, all told, that Meg and Mog ranks that highly in my estimation, as a witchy story (witchy picture-books are a pet project of mine) per se, but as a very effective beginning reader, one that happens to make use of witchy themes, I can see why it has been so popular, and why it has remained in print, over in the UK. When Meg's catastrophic spell-casting ends up turning all her friends into mice; much to Mog the cat’s delight, she must make a choice about when to change them back. Dialogue is in the form of speech bubbles, so when you're reading out loud you have to ad lib a bit.A car is all very well if you know how to drive it, but if you're Meg or Mog, in a hurry to go on a picnic, you really are safer on a broomstick. Over forty years after their first appearance, much-loved characters Meg and Mog are back in a brand new adventure!

Meg and Mog Book Series | LoveReading4Kids Meg and Mog Book Series | LoveReading4Kids

And each time it happened they would look vaguely disappointed, try not to, and then go "Ah well, he's a toddler! The book can be used as a part of a numeracy session in Early Years as the children can count the objects inside the book, point and name the simple shapes.His interest in paper cut-outs stemmed from his time in an air raid shelter in Warsaw, where a soldier had kept him amused by cutting newspapers into shapes for him. This new collection features narration from award winning actress Samantha Bond as well as specially commissioned sound effects and music which will delight Children of all ages.