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Once, I Munched A Mango
Children's picture book for younger readers
Hardcover
Published January 1, 2021
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October 30, 2023
🥭 Once, I Munched a Mango by Samantha Wheeler, illustrated by Shannon Horsfall 🥭
An adorable fruit bat tells us all about the delicious fruit he’s plucked, munched and nibbled and introduces us to the animals he meets along the way, all the while challenging us to guess the place he lives and the land he loves to roam. This delightfully illustrated book is part of a series of 12 books published by the State Library of Queensland as part of the First 5 Forever early literacy program.
Mummy loves:
❤️ This is a perfect book for gifting to Queensland kids. Written and illustrated by Queenslanders and published by @statelibraryqld, it speaks to place through an exploration of flora and fauna, and the prompts to think about where our furry little friend might call home. We recently gifted it to a little Queensland friend who has moved overseas for their first birthday and have a copy ready to gift a new little Queenslander when we meet them soon.
❤️ This book has some of my favourite features for reading to a baby - rhyme, repetition and a lovely rhythm.
❤️ It’s the perfect length to read to a baby - just enough repeats of the pattern but not too long.
Ari loves:
💛 Looking at the giant snake’s face when I prop the book open beside his play mat.
💛 The rhythm and pace of the story - he gets excited and kicks his legs as we read.
We picked this one up on a trip to the library and have since bought our own copy when Ari visited State Library for the first time.
We give this book five little lions!
🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁
An adorable fruit bat tells us all about the delicious fruit he’s plucked, munched and nibbled and introduces us to the animals he meets along the way, all the while challenging us to guess the place he lives and the land he loves to roam. This delightfully illustrated book is part of a series of 12 books published by the State Library of Queensland as part of the First 5 Forever early literacy program.
Mummy loves:
❤️ This is a perfect book for gifting to Queensland kids. Written and illustrated by Queenslanders and published by @statelibraryqld, it speaks to place through an exploration of flora and fauna, and the prompts to think about where our furry little friend might call home. We recently gifted it to a little Queensland friend who has moved overseas for their first birthday and have a copy ready to gift a new little Queenslander when we meet them soon.
❤️ This book has some of my favourite features for reading to a baby - rhyme, repetition and a lovely rhythm.
❤️ It’s the perfect length to read to a baby - just enough repeats of the pattern but not too long.
Ari loves:
💛 Looking at the giant snake’s face when I prop the book open beside his play mat.
💛 The rhythm and pace of the story - he gets excited and kicks his legs as we read.
We picked this one up on a trip to the library and have since bought our own copy when Ari visited State Library for the first time.
We give this book five little lions!
🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁
March 22, 2021
A delightful picture book with words by Samantha Wheeler and illustrations by Shannon Horsfall, Once, I Munched a Mango (State Library of Queensland 2021) is published as part of the First5Forever program, in which SLQ released 12 new children’s picture books for Queensland’s youngest readers. Each book showcases Queensland in some way.
In this book, we meet a cute and furry fruit bat as he munches, nibbles and snacks on a variety of fruits such as strawberries, mangoes, paw paws, pineapples, lychees, custard apples, avocados, watermelon and passionfruit. Along the way, he meets other animals prevalent in Queensland, including a platypus, a green tree frog, dunnarts and bandicoots, a butterfly and a toad, turtles, dugongs, rays, a cassowary, a quoll, a brolga, a crocodile and a scary snake!
As the story progresses, the cute creature asks the question ‘Can you guess the place I live, the land I love to roam?’ The answer, of course, revealed at the end of the book, is Queensland.
This is a beautifully written and illustrated picture book which will engage young children or early readers with its array of fruits and animals, and the continual guessing game as to where the book is set. A lovely large hardcover book, this would make the perfect gift.
In this book, we meet a cute and furry fruit bat as he munches, nibbles and snacks on a variety of fruits such as strawberries, mangoes, paw paws, pineapples, lychees, custard apples, avocados, watermelon and passionfruit. Along the way, he meets other animals prevalent in Queensland, including a platypus, a green tree frog, dunnarts and bandicoots, a butterfly and a toad, turtles, dugongs, rays, a cassowary, a quoll, a brolga, a crocodile and a scary snake!
As the story progresses, the cute creature asks the question ‘Can you guess the place I live, the land I love to roam?’ The answer, of course, revealed at the end of the book, is Queensland.
This is a beautifully written and illustrated picture book which will engage young children or early readers with its array of fruits and animals, and the continual guessing game as to where the book is set. A lovely large hardcover book, this would make the perfect gift.
March 26, 2021
Luscious rhyming text complemented by a veritable fruit salad of colour imagery describing the beautiful bounty of foods and native creatures that make up the Australian state of Queensland. Well worth feasting on!
February 11, 2025
Amazing illustrations. Great for local Queenslanders like my family.
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