Daddy's Little Scout, written by Janet Bingham and illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw is a picturebook about moving and finding a new home. Little Fox and his Dad are visiting the animals of the forest to see their homes. They go to see Mrs. Finch who is building a new nest, the rabbits are making new rabbit holes and Mr. Mole is digging new tunnels to live in. Little Fox is outgrowing their den, and the Foxes will need a new home. So little Fox and his Dad go to seek a new place for them to live.
This is an adorable picturebook which is very well suited to a bedtime story. It should be noted that this is a companion book to 'Mummy's Little Star' also by Janet Bingham.
The second reading I have chosen is actually a short story out of Shaun Tan's 'Tales from Outter Suburbia'. A very strange complilation of fiftheen short stories, out of these I have chosen 'Undertow' a story very simply about a dugong that appears on the front lawn of a otherwise quite suburban street on very strange morning. While all the surrounding neighbours are trying to do something about this very strange situation, the owners at number seventeen are somewhat disconnected from the whole situation and are more concerned with the markings the dugong has left on their lawn!
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