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The Giant Jam Sandwich

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The Giant Jam Sandwich by Janet Burroway, and John Vernon Lord

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By Janet Burroway, and and, John Vernon Lord

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46 reviews

One hot summer in Itching Down,
Four million wasps flew into town.

What are the villagers going to do about this noisy, nasty nuisance of a swarm? Make a giant jam sandwich – that’s what!

Reviews

15 Mar 2024

It was funny that the wasps got trapped

31 Aug 2023

I enjoyed this book and I liked when the wasps got stuck in the jam! When they made it looked yummy but I wouldn’t like mine with wasps on it!

30 Aug 2023

Great book

14 Aug 2023

It's good :)

05 Apr 2023

It is so fantastic because I liked the pictures of the giant jam sandwich!

29 Jan 2023

A brilliant classic which I have recently enjoyed again as a class teacher. Great for teaching sequencing and instructional writing with very detailed illustrations too!

06 Sep 2022

I love the book. I like the birds eating the sandwich with the wasps in it.

16 Aug 2022

I thought it was so so. Because I didn't like the wasps, but I liked how they trapped the wasps.

04 Aug 2022

I really loved this book, the funny bit was when the wasps got trapped in the jam and were squashed in the sandwich. I liked the bit when they were making the dough best.

I would tell my friends to read it!

03 Feb 2022

I love the 400 million wasps and the giant sandwich once its made.

09 Aug 2021

I liked it when the wasps got squashed in the sandwich.

31 Jul 2021

I love this book because I love the bit where the wasps get trapped in the giant jam sandwich. I also like the bit where the birds flew off with the sandwich and feast on it for 100 weeks.

29 Jul 2021

Very good

29 Jul 2021

The people are very intelligent

26 Jul 2021

I like it because its funny and it rhymes!

14 May 2021

I like the artwork in the giant jam sandwich it is very good and I like the way it was painted or drew. My favourite bit was when the wasps stung Lord Swell on his fat bald pate..

24 Jan 2021

I liked watching them make the loaf of bread and then when they cut the slices. It was fun watching them make the sandwich which trapped the wasps.

02 Jan 2021

The farmer is funny!

09 Oct 2020

I like it because 4 million wasps come into town and they keep on annoying the villagers.

07 Sep 2020

It was so funny! It was fiction and all about naughty wasps.

05 Sep 2020

I would love to make a sandwich that big.

03 Sep 2020

Fun. They make great things together rid of 4 million wasps.

27 Aug 2020

What a strange story but we love it!

25 Aug 2020

I like it because the birds have the sandwich for a hundred weeks and only 3 wasps got away!

25 Aug 2020

I think it was clever how they trapped the wasps in the biggest sandwich ever!

23 Aug 2020

This book is about a thousand wasps who fly into a town. They try to get rid of the wasps and then the whole town decide to work together to make a giant jam sandwich to get rid of them. My favourite part was where you can see them all baking the bread.

23 Aug 2020

I like reading this book because my favourite food is jam in any bread. I like the end part where they all dance to pretty music. I don't know how many minutes or hours it will take to make a giant loaf of bread myself! It's one of my favourites.

03 Aug 2020

I like it because I like all the pictures and I can say it all by myself.

24 Jul 2020

The baker was my favourite person. I like the rhyming in it.

21 Jul 2020

I liked the baker, he had the idea.

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