The Fattest Dwarf of Nosegay

Paul Biegel is a marvellous story-teller. Thirty-one very short chapters string together in a story that begs to be read aloud. Virgil, fattest of all the dwarfs, goes in search of a looking-glass to find out what he looks like. The quest takes him far from home and he meets a great variety of characters, animal and human, and falls in and out of adventures. A lot of humour and a lightly suggested moral. (The Dwarfs of Nosegay, to which this is a sequel, is newly in Puffin.)