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Little Gems – The Snake Who Came to Stay

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Little Gems – The Snake Who Came to Stay by Julia Donaldson, and Hannah Shaw

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By Julia Donaldson, and and, Hannah Shaw

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116 reviews

Warm and charming Little Gem bestseller, now available with full colour illustrations. A perfectly pitched story for early readers from the former Children’s Laureate and master of the market. High quality cream paper and a special easy to read font ensure a smooth read for all.

Polly has set up a pets’ holiday home for the summer and with a house full of greedy guinea pigs, pesky parrots and slithering snakes, Mum is getting more fed up by the day! Especially when Doris the snake goes missing…Can Polly find Doris before the snake finds the guinea pigs? High quality cream paper and a special easy to read font ensure a smooth read for all.

Reviews

05 Sep 2024

It was funny. But I never want a snake as a pet!

22 Aug 2024

Really enjoyed this book and wanted to keep reading to see what happened next. The cheeky bird who kept causing mischief. It was funny that Ben had babies and had to be re-named Jen lol . Fabulous reading.

15 Aug 2024

It was funny like a detective thing and adventurous.

14 Aug 2024

The best person was the snake.
The other best part was when the Guinea pig had a baby and the other was the copy bird who repeated stuff and the other one is when Doris went through so the girl forgot to close the snake’s house.

14 Aug 2024

The best person was the snake.
The other best part was when the Guinea pig had a baby and the other was the copy bird who repeated stuff and the other one is when Doris went through so the girl forgot to close the snake’s house.

09 Aug 2024

Fantastic story. I love the idea of Polly's Holiday home for pets. Still wonders why Doris never wanted to leave the home, though.

24 Jul 2024

I liked this book because it was full of surprises. I would recommend this book to my neighbour.

24 Jul 2024

I liked this book because it was full of surprises. I would recommend this book to my neighbour.

23 Jul 2024

Polly is a little girl who has begged her mum to have a pet snake. nearly every day she would say maybe. so finally, one day mum got polly a snake. The snake liked her but in the end he ran away but she came back

28 Jan 2024

I liked the book but I gave it 3 stars because thee wasn’t much writing in it. There were lots of pictures. I like to have more of a challenge.

25 Sep 2023

I did not like this book.

17 Sep 2023

Loved this book by my favourite author. Very interesting definitely recommend

12 Sep 2023

Mum chose this one for me - it was a bit babyish.

04 Sep 2023

I really enjoyed this book because of all the animals in it. My favourite animal was Ben the guinea pig because of how cute his child was. It is funny when the snake blends in like he's a hose. I would recommend this book to people who like animals and who like funny books.

22 Aug 2023

It wasn’t very exciting.

19 Aug 2023

I loved the ending. This was the very first chapter book that I have read and it was the best book I have read. 10 stars.

18 Aug 2023

Really enjoyed the book

18 Aug 2023

Fun but a bit short.

18 Aug 2023

This is a good book and if you like animals then you will like it to . It is also funny .

09 Aug 2023

My favourite character was Ben the hamster because he was supposed to be boy and then he had babies!

08 Aug 2023

It was interesting and silly. I particularly enjoyed the part, when the snake escaped.

02 Aug 2023

I thought it was nice but needs to be longer so you can read it for longer and understand the characters better. I liked the guinea pigs the best but would only recommend it to children who are only just learning to read chapter books.

29 Jul 2023

A good fun book with some great characters. My favourite character was Polly who loves animals like me. I would recommend it.

27 Jul 2023

This book is about the snake visiting someone's house alongside other pets while the owners are away on holiday. My favourite character was Charlie because it was funny when he sang I dream of jennie with the light brown hair. I would recommend the book to younger readers because it was so easy to read and was very funny. I would hive this book 5/5.

26 Jul 2023

It is a fiction book, My favourite person in the book was Polly. I liked where Dorris the snake hide. I would recommended to someone else because it was funny. It was interesting because each animal had a funny thing they did.

19 Jul 2023

I liked this book because a snake came to stay at a girl's house and got into some mischief

18 Jul 2023

I enjoyed this book

09 Jul 2023

I loved learning that snakes shed their skin

04 Sep 2022

This had a good twist at the end when the guinea pig turned out to be a girl and to be pregnant.

04 Sep 2022

I enjoyed reading this book. It’s about a girl called Polly who has a holiday home for pets. It was a nice story. My favourite characters were the baby Guinea pigs because I like small fluffy animals. My favourite chapter was The Search because that’s when they were looking for Doris the snake, who was disguised as a hosepipe!

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