Ally Kennen(Marion Lloyd Books) Scrappy is going nowhere fast. His mother has walked out on the family, his grandfather is losing the plot, his father is grumpy and obsessed with his scrap yard with little time for his family and his sister is frantically saving for a deposit on a flat so she can be out …
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I Love Bugs!
Emma Dodd(Orchard Books) I love all bugs … big and small bugs.Join a little bug lover as he takes us around his garden and introduces us to a whole array of creepy-crawlies and other creatures. Whether they are “jumpy leapy”, “spiky spiny”, “whiny buzzy” or “flouncy frilly”, he loves them all. But there is a …
The King of Tiny Things
Jeanne Willis (text) & Gwen Millward (illustrations)(Puffin) When two little girls come and stay at their grand-parents’ house, it seems like a good idea at first to use the old tent found in the shed and sleep in the garden. But the girls soon get scared, especially when an unusually large insect flies into their …