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The Lost Happy Endings

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The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy, and Jane Ray

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By Carol Ann Duffy, and and, Jane Ray

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11 reviews

Short-listed for the 2008 Kate Greenaway Medal A rousing tale of story telling, bravery and witches!

Reviews

12 Dec 2023

I really loved the illustrations in this book, they brought the story to life. The story was amazing and it came to life. There was a story within a story.

04 Dec 2023

A fairytale style story with a classic wicked villain and a happy ending.

26 Aug 2023

I loved the story and the happy ending for The Lost Happy Endings. The witch was horrible and disgusting! Jub was lovely and kind and caring. I would recommend this to younger children.

30 Aug 2021

Fifi33

Wow! This is such an amazing, magical tale about wonderful magical people. Some children might find the witch burning picture a bit scary. I would recommend year 3 read this.

27 Aug 2021

A very different picture book with quite challenging vocabulary. A witch steals Jub’s sack of happy endings leading to children everywhere crying when their bedtime stories end horribly. Beautiful pictures and a lovely story (although very dark at one point) about the power and importance of stories.

19 Jan 2021

This book is about a girl called Jub. She lives in a forest and her job is to gather the happy endings from stories at dusk and take them from one end of the forest to the other before everyone’s bedtime.

In the morning she does all her jobs and then goes and collect the happy endings once again to get them ready for the evening.

However, one evening when Jub goes to the forest with the sack of happy endings something terrible happens. Jub has an accident and the endings are stolen!

What will happen to the sack of happy endings and what will Jub do about this problem?

Both the pictures and writing in this book are beautiful and I very much enjoyed it.

30 Jul 2019

This book is about a girl called judo and she gets happy ending from the woods and the a witch that steels the happy ending.So judo find a gold pen and she starts to make happy ending with is.

06 Jul 2019

I like this book a lot.it is exciting and mystirious.I love the bit when she gets the golden pen and writes dreams in the sky.
I recomend this book for age 5-10.

05 Aug 2017

you should read it because it's a nice story.

24 Jul 2016

It is a picture book but for children who like longer, more difficult to understand stories. The pictures are lovely too.

19 Oct 2015

Very good story

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