Willbee the Bumblebee product reviews

We got this book because The Wonky Donkey was so popular with the kids. The children are often bringing it to me to read with them (or rather play the CD while we turn the pages together). My toddler calls this book Bum Bum Bum and loved dancing to the music. We love Craig Smith's books and songs and every time he brings out something new we make sure we get it.

Willbee is a great follow up book to the Wonky Donkey and just as catchy and readable. The illustrations are fantastic, colourful and really add to the text allowing my daughter to imagine the garden creatures and the situation they are facing. The book itself is great value for money, as it comes with a CD of the song as well. That way we can enjoy the book in the car or at home. Our favourite time to read this is at bedtime, and it definitely gets an outing every few days. Often my daughter wants me to read it over and over again, she finds the story so funny.

Willbee the Bumblebee is a wonderful story. As soon as my daughter saw the book she got excited as it looks similar to The Wonky Donkey which she adores!!

The illustrations are very colourful and amusing for the young children. My daughter's favourite illustration is when Willbee loses his jersey and shows his bare bum!

The words are nice and big, with only a couple of short paragraphs per page. The story is full of rhymes which is very entertaining.

My daughter loves the cd that comes with the book and insists it gets played every time she pulls the book out.

If i had to pick a winner of the two stories then "The Wonky Donkey" is the winner, with "Willbee the Bumblebee" a close second!!

Well done guys. It's great to see more NZ writers being published.

This book looks fantastic from when you first look at it, with bright colours and funny looking characters, and all the way through with great drawings. The story is simple and fun with lots of rhyming to encourage repetition for learning.

My three year old took to this book straight away, flipping through the pages, pointing out all the different insects that she knew and now, even though she couldn't read it herself, once I had read it to her a couple of times, she likes to make up stories from looking at the pages.

What really took her by surprise was the CD that was included. I put this on and she listened to the story being sung, and she even got up and danced about with the music.

Now she loves the book so much she often asks to have it read to her, by myself, and even her older sister will sit down on the couch and read it with her, although she does have to be careful of her little brother who tries his best to 'borrow' it from her.