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Mandy Is Still a Banana

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Mandy is a banana – a ripe, yellow, moon-shaped banana. The problem is, Mandy doesn’t want to be a banana. She would rather be a big, prickly pineapple like Pedro; or a round, plump watermelon like Wilhelmina; or a sweet, juicy strawberry like Priscilla. It takes a plucky little blueberry called Blip to help Mandy focus on her ‘haves’ and not her ‘have-nots’ and to celebrate what makes her so unique, so bendy, so brilliant and so absolutely, so fabulously banana!

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ISBN: 9781444976311 Category: Children's - Picture Books Tags: Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Self-awareness & self-esteem, Children's picture books
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Mandy is a banana. A yellow, bendy, half-moon-shaped banana.

The problem is, Mandy doesn’t want to be a banana. She would rather be a prickly pineapple like Pedro, a round watermelon like Wilhelmina, or – frankly – ANYTHING other than a banana.

It takes a plucky little blueberry called Blip to help Mandy focus on her ‘haves’ rather than her ‘have-nots’ and to celebrate what makes her so unique, so bendy, so brilliant and so absolutely, utterly . . . BANANA!

A quirky celebration of learning to love the skin you’re in, featuring an all-star cast of fruit-bowl friends. Heartwarming and funny in equal measure, Mandy is Still a Banana is guaranteed to be a hit with little ones and adults alike.

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Weight 0.207 kg
Dimensions 29.4 × 23.8 × 0.4 cm
Author

Arena, Zoe

Publisher

Hodder Children's Books

Imprint

Hodder Children's Books

Cover

Paperback

Pages

32

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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