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| Story (for big kids) | Coraline, Neil Gaiman; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon; Coram Boy, Jamilla Gavin; How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff; The Book of Everything; Guus Kuijer; Burning Issy, Melvyn Burgess | |
| Story (for smaller kids) | Wolves, Emily Gravett; Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak; The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler; Clarice Bean books, Lauren Child; Moomintroll books, Tove Jansson; The Stinky Cheese Man, Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith; Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late, Mo Willem; Egg Drop, Minnie Grey, Mrs Goose’s Baby, Charlotte Voake | |
| Non-fiction books (for small kids) | Extreme Animals, Nicola Davies and Neal Layton; No Dodos, Amanda Walkworth; Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?, Robert E Wells | |
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| Animal | Angler fish – it lives in the zone of perpetual darkness at the bottom of the sea and is really ugly! There’s no picture because it looks too scary | |
| Movie (suitable for kids) | Muppet Treasure Island | |
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The Big Knights (not on any more, but it was brilliant! they were big, stupid and brave); Clangers (again, not on now – knitted aliens on a strange planet who talked by whistling and got food from a Soup Dragon who lived in a cave). (Actually, I don’t watch television, so I can’t have any current favourites because I don’t know what’s on.) | |
| Cartoon character | Roobarb in Roobarb and Custard | |
| Ice cream | In England: Haagen Dazs Pralines and cream; in Italy: chocolate, from the gelateria near Ca’ d’Oro on the Strada Nova in Venice | |
| Drink | Gin and orange (oops) or cafe latte | |
| Smell | Frangipani, or coconut flavoured after-sun cream | |
| Place | Venice in Italy – the coolest city in the world, where there are only canals and pointy boats and no roads, cars or bikes. | |
| Outfit | Lilac silk skirt, red jumper with big holes, blue flip-flops | |
| ??? | Ask a new question! | |
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