Export Catalogue Autumn_2023

Picture Books
2+ 25.4 x 25.4 cm (10” x 10”) 24
Little Otter
gives up the Dummy
C. Gobbetti, D. Nikolova
Little otter’s dummy is missing! Or maybe someone took it.
Little otter sets out to investigate. Where could the dummy be?
This rhyming story uses sweet characters to show children that
life without a dummy is perfectly fine—and maybe better.
This illustrated book gently and playfully guides children as
they transition toward independence.
Little otter began to search,
but the dummy
wasn’t on its perch.
The dog huffed.
Its chest was puffed.
‘Do you see me? I’m big and strong.
I go without a dummy all day long’.
Little otter considered
that a dummy so cool
might be taken by a
DOG that drooled.
One morning little otter rose,
waking from a heavy doze
to find the DUMMY wasn’t in its place.
It had disappeared without a trace.
Little otter always wanted it near,
whether out of joy or out of fear.
Happy or sad you could bet
without the dummy little otter
was upset.
WHERE?
Little otter went to ask the FROGS,
who hopped and splashed
in their bog.
The frogs responded with surprise
and looked at him with bulging eyes.
‘Little otter ’, the frogs croaked,
‘why are you here? Want to soak?’
‘I haven’t seen my DUMMY, have you?
Might it be here amidst the bamboo?’
The frogs swiftly heeded little otter
and searched the stones and in the water.
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