Bombo's Garden · Story 5 · New 🍂

Milo the Prickly Monster

Autumn in Bombo's garden. The friends build the biggest leaf pile ever, and then it moves! Snort! Grunt! A monster? Jax sniffs closer… OUCH! Out rolls Milo, a little hedgehog who just wants a friend. A foamy bubble beard, a splash in the pond and a wobbly rescue tower later, everyone knows: prickly outside, soft inside.

2 yrs3 yrs4 yrs5 yrs📖 20 pages🦔 True hedgehog facts😂 Silly & sweet🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇪🇸

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Sample spread: Jax gets pricked on the nose and Milo the hedgehog says sorry

Sample spread: Milo makes a foamy bubble beard, everybody laughs

Sample spread: the friends fall into a wobbly tower after rescuing Milo

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Milo the hedgehog sleeps in a soft bed of autumn leaves

Did you know?

Hedgehogs make bubble beards 🦔🫧

When a hedgehog smells something new, it chews it, makes foamy spit and licks it onto its spines. Nobody knows exactly why! Help real hedgehogs: leave a leaf corner in your garden, put a small ramp in your pond, and give them water, never cow's milk.

💛 Not scary at all"Everybody sees my spikes. Nobody sees ME." A gentle story about looking past first impressions, with a monster that turns out to be a friend.

🦔 Real nature5,000 to 7,000 spines, a great nose, a winter bed of leaves: true hedgehog facts for curious kids.

🙌 Join inA chant to say together ("Prickly, prickly, round and small…"), plus things to look for, say and do on every page.

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