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

up before them. Dark timber bookshelves line the walls, soaring three storeys high. Long, spindly ladders roll along the shelves so that any book may be reached. An open fireplace glows bright in the middle of one wall. Coco swaggers along the mantelpiece, squawking, ‘Welcome! Welcome!’ The centre of the room is filled with large, squishy sofas, side tables, plush rugs, giant floor cushions and reading lamps. Two hedgehogs have dragged a dictionary into a corner and turned it into a nest. They poke their noses out of the scrunched pages and smile.

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