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Book of the Month: I Don’t Want to Be a Pea!

Just Imagine Book of the Month - August 2011

By Nikki Gamble (from Just Imagine), posted 03rd September 2011 at 8:50PM | Comments

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By Ann Bonwill, with illustrations by Simon Rickerty

A hippo called Hugo and a bird called Bella are getting ready for the Bird-Hippo Fancy Dress Party. They decide to go as 'The Princess and the Pea' but neither wants to be the pea. Well, you wouldn't, would you? Because they both want their own way, they can't agree on a costume and they almost don't go to the party at all.

Ann Bonwill's witty dialogue has some laugh out loud moments and it reads aloud very well making this a super choice for the primary classroom.

'I will be the mermaid and you will be my rock. You make a very fine rock.' Bird tells her friend. Hippo isn't convinced 'I don't want to be a rock. It is too grey and...

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