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The POLAR BEAR is DIFFERENT from the BROWN BEARS. BUT we can ACCEPT that (and like) her for who she is. Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book. David Walliams’s beautiful first novel will touch the hearts (and funny bones) of children and adults alike. Coral is a bounty hunter that has her own version of the SIG gas. A version that causes any person that breathes it in to experience frightening hallucinations. During her missions, she uses that gas alongside her Boogie Bears! The Boogie Bears are extremely cute plushies that she makes and takes care of with lots of love, but they can become the nightmare of anyone who gets in her way. Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well.’ Chloe sees Mr Stink every day, but she’s never spoken to him. Which isn’t surprising, because he’s a tramp, and he stinks. But there’s more to Mr. Stink than meets the eye (or nose) and before she knows it, Chloe has an unusual new friend hiding in her garden shed.
Do we need to point the metaphorical finger and say YOU are DIFFERENT but that is OK, congratulating ourselves for being so tolerant? What is "different" these days? We live in increasingly multicultural and liberal societies where what is neither easy nor desirable to identify what is NORMAL. Make your appointment if you dare… Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find… a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it?
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Up at the North Pole, a big furry polar bear is swimming, fishing and eating. But when she nods off and finds herself far from home, she thinks things can’t get any worse. There is a minimum of three books known in the iCarly universe. Sam mentioned the books in two episodes, iFence and iChristmas. Boogie Bear books were the only books Sam read until she got hooked on reading. These are the first three books' titles:
Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe’s rich. Really, really rich. Joe’s got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He’s the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land. But Joe isn’t happy. Why not? Because he’s got a billion pounds… and not a single friend. Since 2008 he has taken the children’s literary world by storm, with some even crowning him ‘the new Roald Dahl’. Miranda loves to be different, and on Bring-your-pet-to-school Day she introduces everyone to her very DIFFERENT pet… Penelope the snake. Miss Bloat the headmistress doesn’t think snakes should be allowed in school. But Penelope has other ideas… While the name, David Walliams, might ring a bell for lovers of Little Britain, it’s his kids books that have made Walliams a household name. I am not trying to claim "not to see colour" or similar. I hope instead my point is that maybe, rather than categorizing people and then comparing them to (somehow identifiable) dominant groups, we instead accept that we exist on an infinite number of points on an infinite series of spectrums where, while characteristics may be shared within groups, there are also many many distinctions. Sure, there are shared experiences within roughly defined groups, but I feel like this book was a bit more simplistic than that.Boogie Bear is a hilariously heart-warming story that’s the perfect festive treat for young children and their parents. There’s something special about picture books. My 11 year old son and I still love them together. We will never be too old for this. Let’s see how long we can keep this good habit going. Boogie Bear is the fifth picture book from bestselling creators David Walliams and Tony Ross punished by HarperCollins Children’s Books. There’s no stopping this couple of incredible British talents.
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