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Charlie and Lola: I Am Too Absolutely Small For School

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6th August 2015

Price: £7.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781846168857

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A classic Charlie and Lola picture book about starting school worries, from Children’s Laureate Lauren Child.

Charlie’s little sister Lola is nearly big enough to go to school. But Lola is not so sure…

Lola says, “I am absolutely not BIG. I am still really quite small. I probably do not have time to go to school. I am too extremely busy doing important things at home.”

This classic first-day-at-school tale addresses children’s fears with warmth, humour, and a lot of fun.

As seen on CBeebies!

‘No first-timer should start school without this book’ – The Sunday Times

Reviews

Child Care
Exciting, funny and memorable
Angels & Urchins
Go straight out and beg, borrow or steal a copy of Lauren Child's latest book
School Library Journal
This is a winner either as a read-aloud or for independent perusal
The Sun
An imaginative and beautiful tale... Excellent.
Daily Mail
With the author's trademark collages, funky, curly writing and soaring leaps of imagination, this book is set to become a modern classic
Books for Keeps
Child gives a simple story about starting school extra layers of complexity and humour
Child Care
An exciting, funny and memorable read for both carers and children
The Sun
An imaginative and beautiful tale... Excellent
Scholastic
An exceptional starting school book full of diversity in print, presentation and illustration
The Independent
Lauren Child is a must for any child...feels fresh and instantly consoling
The Independent
Child is the Tracey Emin of illustration for young children: provocative, fearless, funny, but full of spirit and warmth.
The Independent
Child is the Tracey Emin of illustration for young children: provocative, fearless, funny but full of spirit and warmth
Sunday Telegraph
A unique talent
Child Care
An exciting, funny and memorable read for both carers and children.
Children's Bookseller
Done with all Child's usual wit and idiosyncratic style
Books for Keeps
Child gives a simple story about starting school extra layers of complexity and humour.
Sunday Telegraph
A unique talent
Mumsnet
The perfect preparation for reception as it covers many of the normal fears about starting school
Child Care
Exciting, funny and memorable
Carousel
Fresh, provocative and sharp-witted
Independent
Lauren Child is so good it's exhilarating
The Independent
A must for any child...she writes about the trials of childhood with a clairvoyant eye
Books for Keeps
Child gives a simple story about starting school extra layers of complexity and humour
Teesside Evening Telegraph
Deals sympathetically with children's fears surrounding the first day of school
Independent
Lauren Child is so good it's exhilarating
The Sun
An imaginative and beautiful tale... Excellent
Scottish Sunday Mail
Perfect preparation for school - not preachy or scary, just charming
The Sunday Times
No first-timer should start school without this book
The Sunday Times
No first-timer should start school without this book
Guardian
Lauren Child is a star
Guardian
Lauren Child is a star
The Sun
An imaginative and beautiful tale