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Orange Juice Peas


“No more peas, peas!”

Ben’s little sister Jessie is learning to be polite, but she doesn’t always get it right. The new babysitter doesn’t understand what Jessie wants for tea, and Ben is laughing far too much to help out, until the very end…

I made this story up to tell my own two children, and it made them laugh so much that I turned it into a text for a picture book. We then had great fun researching it by flicking peas round our kitchen! Lizzie Wells’ pictures are so colourful, cheerful and funny, I really reading this with wee ones!

And you can see me reading the book and acting out the story (in the very kitchen we used for research, making a mess again!) in this film

WINNER OF THE DUNDEE PICTURE BOOK AWARD 2013


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