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Learning & Development: Book choice

- Really Want to Eat a Child by Sylviane Donnio and Dorothee de Monfreid

Hodder Children's Books, paperback, £5.99

Achilles, the baby crocodile, is tired of eating bananas every day. What he wants to eat is a child. His mother and father try to tempt him with a sausage and cake instead, without success. But his encounter with a child shows that he's not as big and fierce as he thinks he is. Children will love it!

- Please Don't Torment Tootsie by Margaret Chamberlain

Hodder Children's Books, paperback, £5.99

A cautionary tale about what children should and shouldn't do around animals: 'PLEASE don't torment Tootsie, or provoke Poochie. Don't madden Mutley, or disturb Dixi. Do not bully Bitsy, or even think of teasing Trixi. You'd be MAD to wind up Whitney ...'

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