As a not-yet-published picture book writer, I’ve heard many times that rhyming texts are hard to sell to non-English speaking countries. But in the UK they sell very well indeed. After all, don’t we all just love a good rhyme? Easy to read aloud for grown-ups, fun to predict for kids, and as for language development…
In Oi Frog, the rhymes don’t chunter along a la Gruffalo, but instead form the whole premise of the story. Listen in to the kids and Patricia and find out how nonsense + rhymes = a whirling good story time.