This is a reading story book, rather than a picture book. My wife vi jones is a very shy and reserved person. Like mrs pepperpot, the story is set in the real world with just the one fantasy element, and some amusingly caricatured people. To tell the truth it may have been my expectation that let e down than the actual book. They had a live feed set up inside our house and filmed jim before takin august to.
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