I could tell you all about A Lion in the Night by Pamela Allen. But let my daughter, who is almost two, do it instead:
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"Baby crying. Baby in cot."
"Wake up!" to the queen, "Oook! Lion taking baby!"
"Puppy! Helmet! Hat! Crown! Bikle! [bicycle]" as the great chase, featuring queen, king, admiral, captain, general, sergeant and little dog begins.
"Moon!" as they race through the forest.
"Boat!" as they chase over the sea.
"Where bikle?" as it's squashed against the sergeant on the boat. "Where puppy?"
The Lion stops. Her face is quiet, bursting with expectation as Mummy and the Lion say GrrrrrrRRRAAAAAAH... [chuckle chuckle] then "GraaaaaahHhhhh!"
"king castle dirr rascal" as the Lion taunts the chasers, then invites them in for...
"befast" [breakfast], then "nana, toast, bottle, egg, strawbees"...
"Bye-bye Lion! Lion in cot! My cot!" and she closes the book and toddles off to her bedroom to take a look.
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Now if that isn't a recommendation for a book for a two year old, I don't know what is.
And thanks to Nuradin, who read it to her first.
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