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Clive Penguin Learns To Fly, Sort Of
Huw Lewis Jones and Ben Sanders
Little Tiger

This second story sees Clive Penguin dreaming of soaring through the sky like the ‘majestic’ gulls that reside in the same frozen parts as penguins. However, Clive doesn’t really want to admit how he feels, calling their ability to fly a...


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A Wild Lullaby
Jackie Morris and Cathy Fisher
Otter-Barry Books

In this beautiful bedtime story a mother sings a lullaby to her child. She describes the various ways in which wild creatures all over the world settle their little ones.

In the field, the red fox barks; in the sea the whales hang side by side ...


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How to Scare Blue Monster
Petr Horáček
Otter-Barry Books

According to Blue Monster’s friends, Fox, Wolf, Raccoon and the rabbits the sounds he made when approaching made them very scared. However they are bemused by Blue Monster’s response, “Scared? What does that mean?” Even more so when Blue Monster requests that th...


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Bear Heart
Louise Greig and Hoang Giang
Flying Eye Books

Earnest is a bear, but he’s no ordinary bear. He has a heart that is big and it’s absolutely full of all the things that he loves – a large honeycomb, a blue flower, some salmon, his favourite tree – yet there always seems to be room for just one more thing. Tha...


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Rapunzel is a Lettuce
Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Shirley Hottier
Otter-Barry Books

The combination of its quirky title and Michael Rosen’s introduction should be sufficient to persuade readers to dive into Joseph Coelho’s latest poetry collection. I turned straight to the titular poem and in addition to the six met...


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