BR 2-04: The RUNAWAY PANCAKE

“The pancake rolled out of the gate and into the road, faster and faster.” (Mackinnon, 2006, p. 9).

The Runaway Pancake

I would like to talk about this book. When I looked this book at first, I was interesting to a title of this book. “The Runaway Pancake” it is very interesting time, so I wanted to read this book. There are many unique characters in this book. For example, The Runaway Pancake, One family, a dog, a cat, a fox, a pig, and so on. Everyone want to eat the Pancake. They run after pancake forever, but the Runaway Pancake rolled. However the Runaway Pancake meets a pig finally. . . What happens after that? I don't know weather the Runaway Pancake can escape from them.

I like this book very much, because this book is very interesting. The picture is cute and interesting, and the story is funny and interesting. The pancake can taking and running in this book, and the animals can taking. So I can understand feeling of them easily. The pancake does not want to be eaten, so the pancake escapes from many people and animals. Many people and animals runs after the pancake. It is very interesting for me. I enjoyed to read this book.

This book is level four book in Usborne first reading series. I think that this book is easy to read. The sentence is pretty long, but the contents is easy to understand. So you can understand it. This book's story was retold by Susanna Davidson, illustrated by Dave Hill. This Runaway Pancake is a folk tale from Germany and Norway. There are different versions with different characters, but the pancake always gets eaten at the end. This book is little long story(about 50 pages), but it is easy to read. I recommend you to read this book. This story is wonderful and Heart warming, so please read this book.

Reference

Mackinnon, Mairi. (2006). The Runaway Pancake. London, England: Usborne.

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