What happens is, my older brother Kurt rushes in. You can tell something is wrong because he is running. (Kurt never runs.) He says, 'The tree in our street is going to be chopped to pieces.' (It's probably a hundred years old.) Everyone goes a bit down in the mouth. Kurt says he's going to make a plan of action to stop all the destruction. Dad mutters, 'It's a shame he doesn't take ac…
Children will love to mimic the actions in this first concept board book - featuring the brilliantly funny Charlie and Lola.
Clarice Bean is back in a second riotous family saga. When Mum and Dad both have to go away on Important Business, there's nothing for it but to ask Uncle Ted to babysit. Uncle Ted is a fireman and says he has had lots of close shaves which is funny because he has a beard. Pretty soon chaos reigns as the guinea pig escapes, Grandad disappears and Minal Cricket gets his head stuck in the railing…
Lola says, "Did You Know That A Tiny LadyBird Is An Animal And Also So Is An Extremely Enormous Elephant."