Pob and Friends

A bright red book with plenty of treats for reading aloud. Punctuated by bursts of short poems (about a greedy boy, cornflakes, why the moon gets father and thinner), 18 stories are presented and the variety is excellent. My favourite is the one about the boy who was a bit frightened of the darkness in the cupboard under the stairs but who learned to cope with it by realising his new kitten would be frightened too if he did not go and rescue him. And I liked the one about the dragon too, especially when he squeezed himself out of the bottle; the one about the outside Christmas tree and the spiders' webs hanging on it like decorations... and the one about the magic swan... I liked all of them actually. I bet you would too.