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"Wise old man, won't you help me, please? My house is a squash and squeeze."
Visit the farm in the brilliantly funny A Squash and a Squeeze, the first ever picture book written and illustrated by the unparalleled picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The…
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“Wise old man, can you help me please? My house is a squash and a squeeze!” Julia Donaldson is a songwriter turned picture-book writer who acknowledges that her song skills have been key to her successful books. She’s an inspiration to slow starters everywhere: this, her first book, was published in 1993, 18 years after she wrote the song for a BBC children’s programme! It’s a boisterous retelling of an eastern European folktale, where an old woman, who complains that her house is too small, is advised to take in some animals. When she lets them all out again, the…
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