SuitabookSibling responsibility and cooperation
Four siblings undertake a search for their vanished baby brother, with each presented through a distinct role or personality.
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Pierre Berton - Author
A lively quest story centres on siblings working together to find a missing baby, with unusual personalities, fearless pets and a mysterious underground world and its inhabitants adding comic and imaginative possibilities.
In this fantasy adventure, four children — Penny, the leader; Pamela, her common-sense sister; Peter, whose life’s ambition is to become a garbageman; and Patsy, who collects frogs in her pockets — set out in search of their baby brother, Paul, better known as “The Pollywog,” who has vanished mysteriously from their playhouse. Accompanied by their fearless pets, the children descend through a secret trapdoor into a strange underground world of mushrooms, whose green inhabitants know only one word: “OG!”
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA lively quest story centres on siblings working together to find a missing baby, with unusual personalities, fearless pets and a mysterious underground world and its inhabitants adding comic and imaginative possibilities.
Four siblings undertake a search for their vanished baby brother, with each presented through a distinct role or personality.
The children enter a strange underground world inhabited by green mushroom-dwellers who know only the word “OG! ”.
Talk about how each sibling’s different personality might help during the search, and whether the underground inhabitants seem understandable, threatening or simply unfamiliar as the story develops.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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