Tidy
A funny story about the importance of trees, by the award-winning Emily Gravett
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- 4,99 €
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- 4,99 €
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Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Picture Book Award 2017.
From the creator of Meerkat Mail and Dogs, comes a very funny rhyming woodland story about the perils of being too tidy - the first book in the A Pete The Badger Story series, followed by Too Much Stuff! and Bothered By Bugs.
Pete the badger likes everything to be neat and tidy at all times, but what starts as the collecting of one fallen leaf escalates and ends with the complete destruction of the forest! Will Pete realise the error of his ways and set things right?
Lush foliage and delightful characters abound in this cautionary tale of overenthusiastic neatness that delivers its message of environmental preservation with subtlety and humour. The freshness of the illustrations and the many comic details make this a very special book. Once you enter this forest, you'll never want to leave.
Emily Gravett's engaging woodland creatures will appeal to fans of such classics as The Animals of Farthing Wood and The Wind in the Willows and the rhythmic, rhyming text is perfect for reading aloud.
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Pete the badger works ceaselessly as the forest's cleaner-upper early on, Gravett (Little Mouse's Big Book of Beasts) paints him grooming a fox and giving an owl a sponge bath so autumn, with all those untidy leaves, fills him with anxiety. He swings into action, and readers see him atop a mountain of leaf-filled trash bags. Now, the leafless trees bother Pete; he digs them up, and when that leaves a muddy mess, he paves it all over "perfectly tidy and perfectly neat" with disastrous consequences. There's no suggestion of malice behind Pete's actions; Gravett's bouncy rhymes emphasize instead his single-minded devotion to his goal ("Pete called in the diggers,/ he called in the mixers,/ he called in the concrete,/ the rakers, the fixers"). In the background, the delicate leaves and gnarled trunks of Gravett's forest testify to the beauty of nature just as it is. A die-cut cover whose openings reveal Pete among the trees underscores the sense of deep, luxuriant growth. Some may miss the dark humor of Gravett's earlier books, but her message about environmental damage is delivered with the lightest of touches. Ages 4 8.
