The Lost Happy Endings

I first saw this at a literacy curriculum training event for primary school governors and was very impressed by the engaging story telling together with its combination of imaginative language and illustration. I bought it for the school with two other Carol Ann Duffy illustrated children's books.

It's beautifully illustrated and a very interesting story.Some reviewers recommend this for older children because it might be a bit scary at points I suppose. What I can say is that our 4 years old loves it, reads at bedtime and has never complained about it. It comes out time after time.Thoroughly recommend it!

Superb book, excellent for use in the classroom or as a goodnight tale. Talk for writing opportunities are plentiful as the illustrations can be used alone as a stimulus for the children to write their own story. Highly recommend.

Loved the illustrations but the story didn't enchant me as l rather expected - big Carol Ann Duffy fan. Oh well

really great story ...the witch is quite scary so maybe not before bed. my 5 year old loved it and was captivated by the witch which was why it was a bit scary. I had to take the book down stairs with me.

A stunning picture book with rich language and imagery. I have used this to great effect with year 4, 5 and 6 children.

Bought for my class and they love it! Nice twist at the end....

Although this may possibly succeed in being a beautifully written and illustrated traditional style story (I bought it to read to a year 2 class whose topic is "traditional tales") I found myself unexpectedly needing to skip the illustrations and replacing some of Carol Ann Duffy's words!!! Just to scary. This was such a shame. In my experience the children old enough to cope with atvkeast three seriously demonic full page pictures of acwitch burning to death are probably to mature to appreciate the sweet tale that lies within: a little girl called Jub who scatters happy endings across the night sky. Sorry...I'm usually more radical in my own story telling but I had to censor this one! Who is it aimed at?