In this award-winning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who owns a junkyard. A surprising friendship grows between them.[Bokinfo].
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- 2022
- 2021
The audacious and captivating Hattie and her best friend Linda navigate the social politics of their first school years in this funny illustrated chapter book. Hattie wants a horse more than anything. Her friend Ellen has three ponies. When Hattie's father finally comes home with a horse float, Hattie is ecstatic. But instead of a horse, out stomps Olaf's donkey. Now Hattie not only has horse fever, she suddenly catches lying sickness as well
- 2020
A funny, lively, sympathetic illustrated chapter book about a street-smart country girl in her first year of school, from internationally award-winning Frida Nilsson.Hattie is a street-smart country girl in her first year of school. She lives just outside of nowhere, right next to no one at all. Luckily she's starting school and that brings new adventures. Hattie gets her first swimming badge, falls madly in love with a hermit crab and meets a best friend. Sometimes things go wrong-like when the hairdresser cuts her hair into stumps just in time for school photos. Or when she happens to accidentally say in class that her new neighbour has three white horses she can ride on.Hattie is a funny, lively and sympathetic chapter book, perfect for reading aloud and for newly independent readers-from Frida Nilsson, whose award-winning Ice Sea Pirates was an international bestseller.