Description Share Post If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone Gideon Sterer, with Emily Hughes (HarperCollins) If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone, it seems that ‘a gorilla will probably answer’. Thereafter, you might exchange small talk, such as who you are and why you’re calling. It’s possible that you’ll be encouraged by how well this gorilla listens so that you might share things such as ‘your favourite colour’ for example. Then again, jokes will be appreciated, for ‘there aren’t many jokes in the jungle’. Furthermore, you could extend the gorilla’s interest by describing yourself. Maybe you could hint that you’ve stripes, or spots or a tail? Emily Hughes is an intuitive, painstaking, breathtaking picture maker, whose illustrations for this wonderful narrative elevate keenly. Thereafter, the story, from the emotionally in tune Gideon Sterer, whom we know for The Midnight Fair, for example, intrigues and warms us. In fact, we wonder at the back story. What is happening at home? What is the need for this call? Furthermore, what does it offer each communicator? Certainly, it seems the gorilla’s delight is infectious so that other jungle animals want to join in. However, might there be more? What’s more, what is the reception at home? Could it be that the child is dismissed, interrupted, seen as most curious, before….? Bookwagon is enthralled by If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone. We recommend this wonderful picture book for reading aloud, at home, at bedtime and in assembly, too!
