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From the award winning creators of Oi Frog! comes an hilarious counting picture book about our four-legged - and two-legged and eight-legged - friends! How many legs would there be if a polar bear came for tea? How high would the leg count go if a squid rode in on a buffalo? As more and more animals join in the fun count along if you can! Praise for Oi Frog! also by Kes Gray and Jim Field 'An absolute treat' - Daily MailKes Gray is a bestselling multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast spreads silliness on his toast and lives in a place called Different Jim Field is a lead-driven pencil-pushing 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan He is also a hugely talented illustrator and animation director His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the
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From the award winning creators of Oi Frog! comes an hilarious counting picture book about our four-legged
- & two-legged & eight-legged
- friends! How many legs would there be if a polar bear came for tea? How high would the leg count go if a squid rode in on a buffalo? As more & more animals join in the fun count along if you can! Praise for Oi Frog! also by Kes Gray & Jim Field ' An absolute treat'
- Daily Mail Kes Gray is a bestselling multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast spreads silliness on his toast & lives in a place called Different Jim Field is a lead-driven pencil-pushing 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan He is also a hugely talented illustrator & animation director His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize Oi Frog! Oi Dog! & Oi Cat! are a top ten bestselling series Oi Dog! was shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award & the British Book Awards in 2016 amongst others It also won the Teach Primary New Children's Fiction Award Made For Mums Award Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award & Portsmouth Picture Book Award Oi Cat! was the Independent Booksellers Children's Book of the Season & Oi Goat! is a World Book Day book in 2018

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Sainsbury's - The third largest supermarket in the UK

Friends - A close associate or a popular US based sitcom about a group of friends

World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti

Fun - Something that provides amusement or enterainment

Tea - A hot beverage made from the leaves of a tea plant

Leg - A body part attached to the buttock

Day - The time it takes a planet or other space objects to complete one rotation.

LED - Light Emitting Diode. A bulb that is very efficient at producing light. Often small.

Season - The separation of four parts of the year into Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.

Treat - A reward, also can be away which someone is dealt with to change behaviour.

Primary - the beginning of something, of chief importance.

Children - A young life form within the early stages of physical development,

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