Affirm Press
September 2024
AUD RRP
$22.99
ISBN
9781922992833
Did someone say cheese? Yes, please!
Some Brie?
Mais oui!
Ooh la la, how fancy!
Don’t forget the smelly ones:
There are quite a few!
Stilton, Limburger
and Stinking Bishop, too.
First da pasta, now da cheese! Of course! one can’t have the one without the other….
The ever-effervescent Felice brings another cuisine icon, of many cultures, to our attention with this fun journey around formaggio, what can only be described as a companion book! Put your hand up if you can’t possibly imagine your life without cheese (vegans look away). In our family we maintain we all part-rat because our need for cheese is real. There are anguished cries if it looks like we are running low and at any time there are at least four different types at hand.
Your Smalls will love this boisterous world trip navigating some of the fun names of cheeses from as far afield as Greece, Switzerland, France and Italy and more. They will definitely know some, and tasted them, and you can bet you’ll have at least a couple with a stringy cheese in their lunch box! You might even have the odd one (underline that) who actually likes smelly cheese.
Once again Felice has nailed it with the rhyming text which is full of life and humour, and the vibrant illustrations from Beatrice are equally delicious. The textured cover art is nothing short of sensational, literally, as the gooey melted cheese completely captures the senses – you can almost taste it, and certainly it made me want to rush to the sandwich press for a grilled cheddar toastie.
Which is your favourite taste – the fetta and parmesan a la The Kid? or the Red Leicester and Brie for me? Whichever you fancy most, you will find it here and you and the kiddos will be chanting ‘Cheese, please!’ by the time you finish reading this cracker of a book (yes, that was deliberate!).
Rush to your nearest delicatessen – I mean, bookshop and pick up your copy before it’s too late, and they are all devoured by the hungry hordes! A wheely huge 5 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀 rating for this tasty one!
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