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|title=We Love You, Hugless Douglas

|author=David Melling

|reviewer=Zoe Page

|summary=Another adventure for the lovable bear, Douglas is looking for a best friend in this latest exploit.

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I love how in books like this the lead can have a special name like Douglas, but most of the supporting cast don’t get further than being called after their species: Cow is making tasty treats, Little Sheep is playing hide and seek, Rabbit is hard at work on the trampoline.

Hugless Douglas books have a distinct branding to them, with big, bright pictures that are almost cartoonish in nature. There’s lots of dialogue in this one which gives wonderful scope for reading aloud with silly voices, and sometimes there’s even a helping hand in the spelling to let you know how the characters should sound (''strawberry and banana smooOOOoo-thies'', anyone?) As if the pictures weren’t enough, the descriptions in the text are lovely too ''frothy-top milkshakes'', ''long, tickly grass'' and so on.

Thanks go to the publishers for supplying this book.

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