Just Right
The king finds the perfect soft, red cloth to make the princess a cloak for Christmas. Once the cloak is made, the leftover cloth is put outside where, in turn, it is found by someone and made into a different present. Each gift gets smaller and smaller as the leftover cloth diminishes – but it’s still just right – until the last teeny bit of cloth is used to make a scarf for the smallest mouse to keep him warm from the winter chill. Rhythmical writing and vibrant and energetic pictures bring to life this lovely story with a perfect Christmas message that giving to your loved ones is just as much fun as receiving.
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Excerpt: Bertie Badger trotted past Jenny’s house. What should he see but a little bundle of beautiful bright red scraps.
“Oooh!” he said. “That cloth is so red and soft and Christmassy! It would be just right to make a hat for my Pa!”
Kate B says: Birdie Black has written a Christmas story that really is “just right”: it’s funny, kind and full of Christmas cheer, and we all know we’ve got a classic on our hands. The icing on the Christmas cake is that Just Right is illustrated by the undeniably brilliant Rosalind Beardshaw, whose popular artwork is always full of wit and warmth. In this particular instance – joy, oh, joy – we really feel she’s created something truly goosebump-inducingly special.
It has to be said, when the artwork came in (on time, to the very minute) it brought a tear to the Nosy Crow collective eye. A happy tear.