Extract - The Travelling Bookshop by Katrina Nannestad illustrated by Cheryl Orsini

I ask. ‘Shouldn’t we have some cereal or yoghurt first?’ ‘I hate yoghurt,’ says Nat.

‘It tastes like slime.’ He chomps into a cupcake, and hundreds and thousands stick to his nose. ‘Cupcakes make us happy,’ says Dad. ‘And being happy is healthy.’ I giggle. Dad’s good at making sense of all sorts of silliness. I take a cupcake, but Coco leans in and nibbles at the icing before I can get it to my mouth. ‘I love picnics,’ says Dad, smiling into the distance. ‘Do you remember that time we went boating on the river with Ratty and Mole?’ ‘I’ve never been in a boat with a rat!’ shouts Nat. ‘That was a book we read,’ I say. ‘ The Wind in the Willows .’

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