Tiddler

My autistic son absolutely loves this book. The rhythm, the repetition, and the colourful illustrations really capture his attention. 📖 The story is fun and engaging, with a gentle pace that keeps him calm and focused. 🎨 The artwork is bright and detailed – he loves pointing out all the sea creatures. 💫 We’ve read it so many times it’s become part of our bedtime routine. Highly recommend for young kids, especially those who enjoy structure and soothing storytelling.

A good story/poem. Fab author, she is a childhood staple in my family, we have many of her books.

Excellent book

Great book! Bright, colourful, bold. We love a board book as our youngest can easily open the pages too. Highly recommend all of the Julia Donaldson books.

Lovely illustrations, but the fishes lies helped him find his way home, not sure what are encouraging but lovely story really enjoyed.

Love this book! All Julia Donaldson books are amazing Price of this was fab!

Tiddler's a funny book about a little fish that tells tall tales, but eventually his stories kind-of come true. A little like a boy-fish who cried wolf-fish ;-) The rhyming and metre is challenging in this book, you have to get into the rhythm, and it's easy to forget to say it with the cantering cadence, and instead fall back to just reading it like a book. The story has a number of interesting morals and things for you to talk to your kids about at bed time... It covers imagination, truancy, lateral thinking, detective work and perseverence, all in one book. We've read it a number of times to the kids and they love it. It's one of the author's lesser-known books, but it's still a great little read! One of the really nice things you can talk to the kids about is that the book shows Julia Donaldson, garbed in scuba-gear at the end, taking notes while Tiddler relays his story to her... You can talk about how the book shows its own writing, a nice self-referentiality which is also sort-of present in Charlie Cook's Favourite Book.

My nephew was delighted with this book.

Love this book and the author, we can’t get enough!

This is my daughters all time favourite book she’s only two but has now read it with me so many times she knows it by heart, I pretty much have to read it every night. Beautifully illustrated and such a lovely story I can really recommend it to anyone Also look out for the hidden gruffalo

Cute story! My kids really enjoy this book.

Excellent story. My 7 and 5 year old grandsons love it and want to hear it again and again.

My 2 year old daughter loves this and wants to read it every night. We have most of Julia Donaldson's books and this is definitely her favourite. Previous reviewers have said that the story isn't quite as good as The Gruffalo or others but the variety of pictures is greater which is why my toddler seems to like this one the most. She likes naming or laughing at all the different fish.