Hugless Douglas is going to a sleepover in this third adventure in the hugely popular series - a perfect book for bedtim.

Rabbit is happy to see everyone and invites them all inside, but however hard they push and pull, Douglas doesn’t fit. This book teaches children when something goes wrong they need to tell the adult in their life about it. He’s the bear that nobody wants to hug (apart from everyone who reads the book) and who ruins his wooly hat. The story has vocabulary enrichment for emergent readers; the illustrations are sweet and pleasantly warm. What might otherwise seem like a run of the mill tale actually works very will, thanks in no small part to the great sense of humour.

Children will beg for them to be read again and again, and I’m sure parents will be only too willing to. tales where the protagonist goes on an adventure, ticking off the characteristics that don't quite match up with their goal. I thought I’d post my top 5 read alouds for 2-5 years, 5-8 years and 8-12 years in case anyone is looking for great read alouds for their children or their class. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. One of his most popular picture books The Tale of Jack Frost was animated and shown on BBC1 on Christmas Day.

Poor Hugless Douglas just wants to find someone to hug, but it isn't as easy as you'd think when you're a big bear! He has a huge shiny nose and a face that shows expression and feeling perfectly, as do the other characters in the book. of our deliveries are made by Royal Mail as we think they give the best service and cover all areas of the UK. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice centre (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK).

At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. David Melling is one of the UK's best-loved author-illustrators and his stories combine brilliantly imaginative illustrations with an endearing sense of what it is like to be a small child learning about the world. 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.

Before creating picture books, David worked as a photographer and as an animation artist for films including the much-loved Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. But, he is still quite big and, well, a bear--so not really a creature a lot of critters will be eager to hug. When Hugless Douglas goes on a best friend hunt with Flossie the sheep, everyone seems to have a best friend except him!

A fairly entertaining story, though with a slightly questionable message about consent (he hugs the sheep even though they tell him they don't want him to! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The illustration of Douglas wearing his wooly hat that his dad just gave him captures that excitement and joy so perfectly. His child-like qualities and personality are something that children can relate to and you can’t help but want to help him out, give him a cuddle and tell him everything will be OK. Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. He improvises but nothing is quite satisfactory until he finds the one creature who can give him the best hug of all.