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Hugless Douglas, For National Curriculum Early Years, Interest age: from c 3 years, Picture storybooks
Douglas and friends are playing their favourite game - hide-and-seek! A brand-new adventure featuring the big bear with the big heart!
Join Douglas and his friends for some hide-and-seek fun in a new adventure. This bestselling series has sold over 1.6 million copies!
Hugless Douglas loves to play hide-and-seek but he's so big he can never find a good enough hiding place. So he and Little Sheep team up to be the best seekers ever. But when Little Sheep disappears can Douglas find his friend on his own?
David Melling is one of the UK's best-loved author-illustrators and his ninth book about Douglas the brown bear is as funny and compelling as the first. It combines brilliantly imaginative illustrations with an endearing sense of what it is like to be a small child learning about the world.
'A new Hugless Douglas book is always a cause for celebration.' - Daily Mail
Praise for Hugless Douglas Plays Hide-and-seek
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Hugless Douglas fits right in with the well-loved classics like Winnie the Pooh and Paddington Bear and will be remembered for many years to come. - Guardian
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Hugless Douglas Finds a Hug is a contender for our favourite young children's book of the year! - Daily Record
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Hugless Douglas and the Big Sleep made us laugh out loud from the very first page. - Storyseekers
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. . . has found his way into children's hearts. - Parents in Touch
David Melling
David Melling has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Smarties Book Award and the Independent Booksellers Award. His Hugless Douglas books have sold over 2 million copies worldwide, and the loveable brown bear has starred in a World Book Day book as well as his own theatre show. Before becoming an internationally acclaimed author-illustrator, David worked as an animation artist for films including the much-loved Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs. One of his most popular picture books The Tale of Jack Frost was animated and shown on BBC1 on Christmas Day.
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