Nederlandse versie: het is natuurlijk lastig als je een vertaling moet maken van een boek op rijm, maar zeker in vergelijking met de andere boeken van Julia Donaldson vind ik deze echt wat moeizaam vertaald. Smeds and Smoos alike have antennae and tubular noses, but Smeds, red, have webbed feet they wear bare while Smoos, blue, sport elflike boots. However, the book uses this to handle sensitive topics about inclusion, acceptance and friendship in a great child-friendly way. As soon as he’s able to, he flies out through the chimney and muses happily that this adventure happened only due to his being a quilt. Despite parallel contemptuous commands to “Never, never play with” the other group, Janet and Bill secretly bond and grow up to marry.

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Maar o wee, die familie…… Dit dwing Fleur en Fanie om ‘n plan te beraam om hulle families anders te oortuig. 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.This story deals with very relevant and current topics such as unknown 'others', people's differences, showing love and kindness, acceptance, friendship, teamwork, and refugees (Donaldson dedicates the book to all the children of Europe). I also liked the inter text references to the gruffalo through the illustration, I always enjoy finding them.

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The newest rhyming picture book from Julia Donaldson, The Smeds and The Smoos follows two star-crossed aliens; Janet the Smed and Bill the Smoo.

Maar eendag ontmoet Fleur en Fanie en begin skelm saam speel totdat hulle, jare later, besluit om te trou.

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Meeting by accident in the Wurpular Wood, Janet and Bill delight in each other’s company until their grandparents find out and drag them away. Meanwhile the amount of text on each page is rather intimidating: there are more words per page than I think I've ever seen in a Julia Donaldson story, and my little one couldn't pay attention for longer than the first few pages.Two young aliens from warring families fall in love and run away, leading their relatives on a chase across outer space. I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books.