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| A beauty of a book
Lonely Cyril the squirrel meets a friend called Pat, and Pat's a (spot the difference?)...
... squirrel as far as Cyril is concerned. Pat's also a brilliant sharer, and a scruffy, naughty FUN friend to scamper around and make mayhem with ...
... until a small boy tells Cyril that actually Pat isn't a fellow squirrel, he's a ...page turn... RAT! And everyone is telling Cyril not to be friends with such a creature. So Cyril is on his own again, trying to do the same games, but it just isn't fun. And then being alone turns scary ...
...until Pat comes to the rescue, along with a whole pack of rats. And soon Cyril is back with 'his brave and clever best friend, Pat'.
Emily Gravett is a master of rhyme and using page turns to dramatic effect, and, of course, creating beautiful, funny, moving pictures for this story about the importance of staying true to your friends.
A picture book of the very best sort.
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2 comments:
What a wonderfully inspired development from the common "Squirrels are just rats with furry tails!" remark. Thanks for this,Pippa.
This sounds great - I will look out for it for MB. And me. She is a great excuse to buy picture books, and I love Emily Gravett. There should be a spoiler alert here, though :-)
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