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Playfully addresses the way the very young often oscillate between wanting to be grown up and wanting to be babied.
Author: Jonathan Allen
Illustrator: Jonathan Allen
Publisher: Boxer Books
In this delightful story, Baby Owl is fed up with his animal friends thinking he’s cute and fluffy, while to him it is perfectly obvious that he’s a a ‘huge and scary hunting machine’. He complains to his mum, who assures him he is indeed the mean hunting machine he’s so keen to be. Taken aback, Baby Owl throws himself to the floor and protests that he is cute after all! Mum tucks him into bed and after reading him a bedtime story, whispers to him that he’s so cute (for someone so scary).