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For National Curriculum Early Years, Interest age: from c 3 years, Picture storybooks, Pets (Children's / Teenage)
A touching story about kindness, imagination and finding friends in unexpected places, from the award-winning creators of My Pet Star.
When a little boy finds a lonely stone on a quiet beach, he decides to find him the perfect home among other stones just like him. But nowhere feels quite right for little Stone.
And just as the boy is about to give up, he realises that he may have had the perfect home for Stone all along . . .
A touching story about finding friends in unexpected places, from the award-winning creators of My Pet Star.
Praise for My Pet Star:
"The perfect book for bedtime or snuggling up with" BookTrust
More books by Corrinne Averiss
Corrinne Averiss
Corrinne Averiss is renowned for her poignant heart-warming picture books for young children. Her books have been sold around the world and translated into over 20 languages. My Pet Star is her tender story about love and loss and won Sainsbury's Children's Book of the Year in 2019. LOVE (illus. Beautyman/Quarto) has found worldwide success as a celebration of family love and remedy for separation anxiety. Corrinne has published titles with Andersen Press, Farshore, OUP, Quarto, Stripes and Hachette. She has also worked in children's television for over 20 years as a writer and producer/director. She created Tweedy & Fluff, the beautiful stop-motion series on Milkshake! Channel 5 and Share a Story for CiTV, which has been awarded no less than 4 Children's BAFTAs. Corrinne grew up in the Midlands, studied English Literature at the University of St Andrews and settled somewhere between the two - in a little town between Manchester and the Peak District with her husband, daughter and Alba the tabby cat.
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