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Paperback
32 pages

Author

Jeanne Willis
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Author's Website

jeannewillis.com/

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Publication date

1st May 2008

ISBN

9780141500300

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The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis



The Bog Baby

Jeanne Willis


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Julia Eccleshare's comment:

A tender story with a big message. Two sisters playing by the pond find a magical tiny being complete with wings. It’s a bog baby and the two girls decide to take the best care of it that they can. But, when the bog baby becomes ill, they realize that they’ll have to let it go back to the wild. A beautiful story about the joy of caring but not shying away from the hardest part of it – letting go when the time comes.

Winner of the 2008 Booktrust Early Years 'Pre-School Award'.

 

 

 

The Lovereading comment:

A wonderful new story from Jeanne Willis, the author that brought you Who's in the Loo? Ever heard if a Bog Baby before? Well it’s undersized and blue and has wings similar to that of a dragon. When two girls find it in a magical pond they wonder what to do with it. This book is hilarious, touchingly illustrated and there’s a good moral lesson at the end.



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Synopsis

The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis

When two small sisters go fishing to the magic pond, they find something much better than a frog or a newt. They find a bog baby. Small and blue with wings like a dragon, the girls decide to make him their secret. I won't tell if you won't. But the bog baby is a wild thing, and when he becomes poorly, the girls decide they must tell their mum. And she tells them the greatest lesson, if you really love something, you have to let it go.



About The Author


Jeanne Willis

Jeanne Willis has had a successful career working in advertising and as an author, writing over eighty picture books, poetry books, television scripts and novels for children. She has won numerous awards including the Red House Children’s Book Award, the Smarties Prize and the Sheffield Children’s Book Award. Her teenage novel Naked Without a Hat was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Children's Book Award and Dumb Creatures was longlisted for the 2005 Carnegie Medal. Her other novels include the Goffins series, Shamanka and Grandad and John and her picture books include Little Big Mouth, Mummy, Do You Love Me? and Never Too Little to Love. She lives in North London.

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