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Brave Charlotte by Anu Stohner and Henrike Wilson (view source)
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|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Maybe
|pages=32
|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
With thanks to the publishers, Bloomsbury for sending the book.
[[Category:Anu Stohner]]
[[Category:Henrike Wilson]]
|name=Jill
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|comment= Isn't Charlotte a grown up sheep though? Don't adults accomplish big acts of derring do to save others? I'd see what you mean if she was a lamb but she's a sheep, right?
I'd miss sing-song rhythm in the text as this certainly looks like one for the littler of little ones going by the illustrations. The pictures are also maybe just a little bit too pretty for me.
Also, I tend to prefer the more anarchic picture books, as children's lives are SO proscribed, I think they definitely need somewhere where rules can be safely broken and books are that place. I also think they can distinguish fantasy considerably better than most of us realise.
I think I'd like the things you dislike about this book and dislike the things you liked!
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|name=Claire
|verb=said
|comment= Point taken Jill. I don't think it's clear how "old" Charlotte is, but she's the character the reader is asked to identify with, hence my caution.
I guess, as with any book, an adult's eye is needed to see where an explanation might be required if the child sees fit to act in a manner we do not like.
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