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This colourful yet simply drawn book is the story about a young woodpecker. Urged by its father to learn to peck, it flies off to practise the skill. The reader can see the result of each peck by the increasing number of holes that appear in the illustrations. After its pecking frenzy, the little woodpecker becomes tired and flies back home, where its father applauds its efforts.
Primary colours, the quickening pace of the rhyme and ever more holes on each new page all capture the woodpecker’s growing excitement and determination to master a new skill. Children will love the humour and the unintended consequences that come from the bird simply doing what it is told!
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