The Hodgeheg

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The only problem is, it's on the other side of a busy road and many hedgehogs have died trying to get there. It does stop short if describing deaths but a curious child could well have questions based on the text. He wrote a great number of children's books, including The Sheep-Pig (winner of the Guardian Award and filmed as Babe ), Harry's Mad , The Hodgeheg , Martin's Mice , The Invisible Dog, The Queen's Nose and The Crowstarver .

We're told at the beginning of the story that his Auntie Betty has been killed crossing the road and that the roads are becoming more dangerous for hedgehogs.

This story is written in a very comical manner, and the adventures of a very determined little 'hodgeheg'. This is a charming story about a hedgehog Max who is determined to find a safe way for his family and loved ones to cross a busy road that's separating the garden where his family lives from a local park. I started to read it to him to calm him down prior to him leaving Nanny’s to go home (always a trial) and he was enthralled.

Well, I’ll look through each one and pull ones that have deteriorated… Wow, a hedgehog, wow, this is cute!

Max provides some valuable lessons to young adventurers, but above all it is an inspiring little story about a hedgehog who simply was not willing to give up in his quest, which at times was filled with danger, for a solution to the problem facing hedgehogs. They will explore features and the purpose of these through examples of non-chronological reports, including reports on field mice and red squirrels. After serving as a soldier in World War II, Dick King-Smith became a farmer and then a teacher of English. S.P, The Mousebutcher, The Merrythought, Lightning Strikes Twice, A Narrow Squeak and Under the MishMash Trees. Sparkling humour and wonderful characters are Dick King-Smith’s trademarks’ – Books for Your ChildrenMax is a hedgehog who lives with his family in a nice little home, but it’s on the wrong side of the road from the Park where there’s a beautiful lily pond and plenty of juicy slugs, worms and snails!