Noni the Pony

Alison Lester (author/illustrator)

Allen & Unwin, Australia: 2010

ISBN: 9781741758887

'Noni the Pony likes trotting and prancing and the ladies next door always moo when she's dancing.'

This charming picture book from the great Alison Lester will delight toddlers with its rhythmic, rhyming text. Noni is a kind, cheerful pony who keeps an eye out for her friends, as they do for her.

Lively illustrations with cartoon-style characters echo the humour and movement of the simple story and its dancing, rhythmic lines which are just made for reading aloud. The vocabulary is perfect for teaching sound families and word types (e.g. verbs) but most of all it is great fun. Full of actions that can be mimicked by young listeners and a text that will soon be learned by heart, Noni the Pony is a book that caregivers will be asked to read again and again.