Ted, Bo and Diz: The First Adventure

Two teddies and a zebra pump up their rubber dinghy and paddle off across the sea. Ere long they spy a family of polar bears and a baby seal on a softly rocking bed of ice. Crack! The ice splits in two but the dinghy is too small for them all to travel to safety. In the pictures we see some distant spouting, and the reader may predict the solution to their problem. Indeed, Ted leaps into the dinghy and paddles far out to sea, returning to the shrinking bed of ice on the back of a whale. Whilst the polar bears are carried north to their home by the whale family, our three reach their beach in the dinghy, only to spot another bed of ice, this time covered in penguins! The book is well designed with occasional double page spreads which slow down the pace of the narrative. Anxious adult readers, alarmed by the friends heading out to sea in a dinghy, will no doubt give due warnings of the risks involved, whilst also explaining the gentle environmental message!