Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love: A compendium of spectacularly illustrated tales - a perfect Valentine's gift!

Combining beautiful illustrations with exciting ten-word stories, Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love is an absolute joy from cover to cover! Perfect for inspiring creativity and sparking imagination, each picture and the combining tiny tale offers endless possibilities for developing story telling.

Love in many different forms is captured here - that of nature, of siblings, of parents of pets. Some of the tales might be interpreted quite literally whilst others are more ambiguous or enigmatic, really open to interpretation and flights of imagination.

For teachers, this book, like Ten-Word Tiny Tales, is an absolute gift for encouraging children to create their own tiny tales or develop these into longer stories, perhaps using the advice offered at the end of the book. However, this is also an invaluable resource for home as well, as families - or any combination of adults and children, children and children, or even adults - might thoroughly enjoy developing stories together.

There is such variety in style of both illustration and tale that there really is something for everyone here. Jim Field's illustration is wonderfully atmospheric, evocative of fairy tales, whilst Sydney Smith's page captures a gentle moment of sibling affection; Rikin Parekh's is wonderfully vibrant whilst Heather Kilgour's is dreamlike. Like I said, an absolute joy from cover to cover!

56 pages / Reviewed by Sue Wilsher, teacher

Suggested Reading Age 5+

Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love is another amazing book in Joseph Coelho and friends' brilliant series. The collection of tiny tales will inspire pupils young and old to write their own stories around these themes. At the back of the book there is carefully created guidance of 'How to lengthen a Ten Word Tiny Tale', which is hugely helpful and thought-provoking. The section 'Parts of a story' gives five parts of a story to focus on when creating your own; this is very useful to discuss with children when they are focusing on their creative writing.

Beautiful illustrations accompanying each ten-word story, meaning that you will spend hours looking at this wonderful book, noticing different elements each time. This is a must-have book for every classroom book corner and every Primary teacher. Many children will love having this at home to create their own stories at bedtime.

56 pages / Reviewed by Amanda Shipton, teacher

Suggested Reading Age 5+