The fact that the main hero of this story is a small little ladybird that never speaks it really lovely. To me it sends the message that even if you are quiet or shy, you can still save the day and be important. This book is my daughters favourite, we can read it that many times during a day, she is 2 and half now and she knows the book by memory from cover to cover, if I ever read the main rhyme "the cow said moo" wrong she corrects me straight away!! Fantastic

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My son absolutely loves this story, especially when I get him to make all the different animal sounds and leave him to fill in the blanks (as he knows the story word for word!).Not only do my three nieces love this fun and imaginative book but also my 11 month old daughter loves looking at the colourful pictures.Perfect book for little ones to look at. Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers. I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs. my son had this book for christmas he loves it i read it to him and i have to push the buttons at the moment as he is only 5 months old but he listens to the book from start to finish a good buy i would recommend buying it to share with your child. my daughter loves this story, insists we take it to our local mums and tots so she can read it to all her friends. other parents have taken it home to share with their little ones

What the Ladybug Heard by Julia Donaldson | Goodreads What the Ladybug Heard by Julia Donaldson | Goodreads

Julia Donaldson is one of today's most popular writers. Her bestselling titles include The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo's Child and Room on the Broom. Although she is best-known for her picture books, Julia also writes longer novels, plays and songs. She lives in Glasgow and spends a lot of time on stage performing her brilliant sell-out singalong shows! In this story we meet a very quiet but clever ladybird. The story is set on a farm where the ladybird lives with the rest of her farmyard friends. On overhearing two robbers plotting to steal the farmer’s prize cow, the ladybird comes up with a clever plan to stop them.The story is about a ladybird coming up with a plan to save the farm. The illustrations of the ladybird telling the animals plan is clever because the illustrator has lined up the animals and created a trail to each animal’s ear to show the reader that the ladybird is telling each animal the plan and their role in the plan.