Polly Dunbar

Doodle is feeling bitey. And what better to bite than a big bottom - Tumpty's. But poor sore Tumpty is so upset he stamps on Doodle's tail - and now both of them are upset - and before long everyone is upset. When Doodle and Tumpty apologize, everyone can be happy again. But Doodle is still feeling just a little bit bitey.

Tilly and her friends are camping out in the garden when Tiptoe spots a lone blue star twinkling in the sky. Tiptoe twinkles back at him - but the star won't come down, and even Pru's high heels don't make Tiptoe tall enough to go up. It looks as though the blue star is going to be stuck without a playmate - until Tilly checks in her Space book and discovers that the little blue star might already have some friends of his own.

Tilly and her friends are singing the Wiggle Wiggle Woo song - but bossy Pru wants all the attention. In her bid to steal the limelight by singing as loudly as possible she manages to lose her voice. Where can it have gone? Tilly and her friends search high and low for Pru's lost voice, but it's not under the cushions, or even in the toy box.

The man from the land of Fandango is coming to pay you a call! He wears a hat with a tassel and a polka-dot tie - and he juggles and bounces and dances with bears, bison, baboons, kangaroos and even dinosaurs. He's wonderful and amazing - so watch out for him, and watch carefully - because he only appears every 500 years!

Paul believes that the moon is not the moon, but is a great hole in the sky. It's one of many strange ideas that he's never told anyone (at school he was told that he had no ideas at all), until he meets Molly, his irrepressible neighbour, who begins to convince him that his theory might just change the world.

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