This excellent tale highlights what prejudice and discrimination looks like to children and actually how it just gets in the way of having fun and making new friends and experiencing new things. Bill and Janet have already returned and have had a baby! They all love the new baby and now each other too. They can’t find Bill and Janet, but end up going home. They end up realising that they get along too and are not that different after all! The smoos and the smeds wake up and blame each other, then they go on their own journey to find them, visiting planets, such as planet Vumjum and seeing the Vums. In the end they get married and run off in a space rocket. They play together and have so much fun, but their grandparents put a stop to it, making them have to meet in secret. Like many other Julia Donaldson books, it advocates being bold and thinking for yourself! Janet and Bill go looking for some excitement and end up making friends. They have strange hair upon their heads.” The Smeds and the Smoos are brought up not to like each other and their grandparents tell them tales of how awful they are: “never never play with the Smeds. This is a great story about a Smed called Janet and a Smoo called Bill. Written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Alex Scheffler.
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