The story's lovable characters, engaging plot, and positive messages about self-acceptance and friendship resonated with my child. A warm and endearing rhyming text by Rachel Bright ( Love Monster, The Lion Inside) is perfectly paired with funny and fabulous illustrations by Nadia Shireen ( Good Little Wolf, Billy and the Beast) in this adorable future classic. McNish is keenly appreciative of social and sexual progress down the decades – but also, now as a mum herself, of how far remains to be travelled.

A very drunk Ron Bell stumbles home, passes out in his front room and wakes to find himself being eaten alive by slugs that have come through the floor.

After reading it once, I had to go back and point out how each of the animals tried to warn the smug slug of the danger he was in, but that didn't stop him until it is too late! The slugs leave Ron Bell's cellar, crawl up into his garden and then down into the sewers towards a new housing estate. It would have been simply matter of fact, had it been a wordless book, but the words added a feeling of mean spiritedness to me.

Bobby, also being eaten alive jumps from the bedroom window straight onto a cold frame below and is killed by a shard of glass. Pamela Duncan Edwards grew up in northern England and moved to the United States several years ago with her husband and two sons. This relatively small and neat volume manages to include a tremendous amount of information; no space is wasted. Making slime would be the perfect activity after reading this cute rhyming story about finding true love in unexpected places. When we’re all grown-up, sometimes we just need a little nudge to remember it’s been there all along.It has simple and sweet rhyming text but the illustrations add a wickedly funny dimension for the adults to enjoy. The new hardback collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobody Told Me. Julie Jenkins, receptionist for the council offices where Brady works, takes a message from pensioner Mrs.

The inimitable words of poet/goddess Hollie McNish once again hold up honest, damn funny and refreshing takes on the everydayness of our lives. Pair this one with The Mysterious Sea Bunny by Peter Raymundo for another tale about a slug that is funny and factual. Recently they have included so much more and this excellent guide is a good example of this inclusive approach. I know that there is only so much that you can fit into a children's book but I had read a lot of them and not really found this issue.This big, colorful book shows that love can be “slippy” and unpredictable and maybe a bit mucky at times, but it’s out there. This completely new FSC AIDGAP publication, which is the subject of this review, should greatly assist with British and Irish slug identification, at last putting slug biology on a much more certain footing and acting as a 'driver' to encourage further studies of this aspect of our dynamic fauna. Yes, I wouldn’t hug a slug, but I am sure there is someone and I was eager to see who would want to be with Doug.