This is an ideal first book for very young readers, containing more than 100 words. It is filled with delightful art work of the places found around an ordinary town, as well as their names. It is designed to help infants embark on a lifetime of reading, introducing them to basic concepts of literacy, ...
Jenny Uglow is the award-winning author of Elizabeth Gaskell (winner of the Portico Prize), Nature's Engraver, which won the National Arts Writers Award, and A Gambling Man, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and most recently In These Times.