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Santa Is Coming to Toronto
Steve Smallman/Robert Dunn/Katherine Kirkland
2012
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Santa Is Coming to Toronto
Steve Smallman/Robert Dunn/Katherine Kirkland
2012
Advent Books - 2021
Don’t wake the Bear, Hare! (by Steve Smallman and Caroline Pedler)
Its Spring Party Day - but as all of the animals gather at the Old Hollow Tree, there’s a big problem!
A huge bear is asleep in the tree!
The little brown hare says “I’ll wake him up”! - but everyone else begs him not to....
Maybe if they very quietly set up their party around the tree, the bear won’t notice?
Advent Books - 2021
Books for the young one - something to open every day!
December 3: Dragon Stew (Steve Smallman & Lee Wildish)
The Vikings are bored - they don’t want to be doing the same old raiding and fighting, today. Then one has a bright idea - they can capture a dragon, chop it up, and make stew!
They set off at once and have a great adventure, with great... consequences....
Advent Books - 2021
See previous post for details, but we’re giving the young one a book for each day of ‘Advent’.
December 2: There’s No Such Thing As Monsters! (Steve Smallman & Caroline Pedler)
Can Little Bear get to sleep, now that he has a room of his very own? He’s not used to Big Bear not being there... its too dark, and too quiet, and there might be monsters!
Big Bear answers when he calls, and reassures him that everything is OK.
But can Big Bear get to sleep, alone...?
Pip attempts to go on an amazing journey in 'Astromouse' when he finds out the Moon is made of his favorite food and he just has to taste it for himself
Santa is Coming to.... by Steve Smallman illustrated by Robert Dunn
Santa is Coming to.... by Steve Smallman illustrated by Robert Dunn #bookreview #childrensbook
Apologies my cat decided this was the time he wanted to play with some ribbon! Christmas is coming, there’s no stopping it now that it’s November sorry but it’s true and my son and I like a good Christmas book so we’re starting early this year with this one. This is part of a series of books about Santa doing his Christmas Eve deliveries in various UK locations such as Manchester, Newcastle upon…
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My Dad, Steve Smallman, who is the author of various children’s books such as The Lamb Who Came For Dinner and Don’t Wake the Bear, Hare (featured on CiTV’s Bookaboo series) and character designer for The Raggy Dolls, just launched his own website and got me to do some animated gifs based on his drawings.