Biscuits...and Star Wars?

One of Aidan's favourite books is Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey, a fantasy tale about a little boy and a biscuit who comes to life. He has passages from it memorised. His favourite page (fully memorised of course!) is:

"Bongo the dog liked biscuits. But not in a way that is necessarily good for the biscuits. Biscuit bear just managed to clamber to safety".

I love that he now knows a new word - clamber - from this book. I love to watch his face as he reads the book by himself, or with someone else.

He pours over the illustrations and asks questions about what he sees. He is (not surprisingly) particularly taken with the illustration of a biscuit knife thrower (although he was confused when I explained that the purpose of the knife-throwing act was not to hit the biscuit assistant attached to the wheel, but to miss them).

Yesterday we iced Girl Guide biscuits in icing of many colours and hundreds and thousands - just like Biscuit Bear does in the book.

Aidan has also used the book as a basis for role playing. Here's a conversation we had:

"I be Horace [the boy in the book], you be Horace's Mum, Isabelle be Bongo the dog".
"And who will Orla be?"
"Ummmm.....Count Dooku!"