The Biggest Breakfast

by Richard Jones
The Biggest Breakfast cover
Good Books rating 4.25
Children's Fiction
Technical:
  • ID: 318
  • Added: 2025-09-10
  • Updated: 2025-09-10
  • ISBN: 9781398523050
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • Published: 2025-03-13
  • Formats: 9
  • Reviews: 3
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Hardback • £12.99

The Biggest Breakfast is a warm and utterly delightful picture book by Richard Jones featuring a fun count-along element, shout-along sound words, and an exciting fold-out page. The story follows a child who feeds a little bird breakfast, only to find the bird returns the next day with more animals, escalating from mice to squirrels, wolves, and eventually dozens of elephants, creating a fantastical and exhausting adventure in feeding them all. Inspired by the author's own experiences feeding wildlife in his garden, the book blends everyday moments with imaginative fun, especially when the kind-eyed wolves appear, marking a shift from reality to fantasy. This beautifully illustrated book offers young readers a joyful introduction to counting and the surprise of unexpected friendships, all wrapped in a heart-warming narrative that ends with a charming twist about who will make breakfast for the child.

Reviews
Books For Keeps · 2025-05-14
charming 4.25

The story captures the gradual build-up of feeding animals, blending everyday experiences with a touch of fantasy, creating an inviting and gentle narrative for young readers.

This review appreciates the book's pacing and narrative structure, where a child feeds one bird and then more animals appear each day, culminating in a playful mix of reality and imagination. The gentle escalation appeals to children’s curiosity and sense of wonder, making it a comforting and captivating read that also serves as a subtle lesson in counting and observation.

Quick quotes

    Herein we meet a little child who starts off by feeding just one bird.

    The following morning the bird returns and with it come two mice.

    The book switches from the everyday to the imaginary!

The Bright Agency · 2025-03-21
delightful 4.50

The book is warmly described as utterly delightful with engaging count-along and shout-along elements, blending everyday garden wildlife with imaginative storytelling.

The review highlights the charm and warmth of the book, emphasizing its interactive nature through count-along and shout-along sound words that make it engaging for young readers. The progression from familiar garden animals to a fantastical appearance of wolves adds a delightful twist, showing the author's inspiration from real-life garden visits and his ability to mix reality with imagination in a fun, exhausting tale for the child protagonist.

Quick quotes

    The Biggest Breakfast is a warm, utterly delightful new picture book that includes a fun count-along element, shout-along sound words and a jam-packed fold-out page.

    The idea for the story grew out of lots of little experiences of feeding wildlife in my garden.

    The moment the eight kind-eyed wolves show up is the moment when the book switches from the everyday to the imaginary!

Hatchards · 2025-03-13
engaging 4.00

A fabulous introduction to bigger numbers with an engaging count-along format that encourages young children to participate actively in the story.

The review praises the book as a fantastic way to introduce children to counting and larger numbers through an interactive and fun format. It highlights the book's ability to engage young readers by encouraging them to count along, making learning numbers enjoyable and accessible while also being a charming story about feeding animals.

Quick quotes

    The Biggest Breakfast is a fabulous introduction to big(ger) numbers and encouraging young ones to count along.

    A delightful little number.

    Encouraging young ones to count along.

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