The book of hopes : words and pictures to comfort, inspire and entertain / Katherine Rundell.

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Magic.

Cover -- But What Do You See? by Lauren Child -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- The Hope Tree by Axel Scheffler -- A very short note about hope by Katherine Rundell -- Animals -- A Song of Gladness by Michael Morpurgo -- Care of Exotic Pets. Number 1. The Axolotl at Bedtime by Catherine Johnson -- The Monk and the Armadillo by Onjali Q. Raúf -- Murkaster by Frank Cottrell-Boyce -- Hope by Tom Percival -- Hope in Unexpected Places -- Hope by Anthony Horowitz -- An extract from The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness -- Mr Umbo's Umbrellas by Patience Agbabi
Bag for Life by Joseph Elliott -- The Hope Hunters by Axel Scheffler -- The Stars -- Stargazing by Emily Fox -- A Way to the Stars by David Almond -- Only in the Darkness Can You See the Stars by Lydia Monks -- Kindnesses -- Say Something Nice by A.F. Harrold -- New Boots by Jacqueline Wilson -- Searching for Treasure by Annabel Pitcher -- Balcony Picnic by Michelle Magorian -- A Big Hug by Catherine Rayner -- Dreaming and Daydreaming -- Hopes and Dreams by Yasmeen Ismail -- Look Out: A Poem of Hope by Philip Ardagh -- Perchance to Dream by Chris Riddell -- Dogs
Plumdog Delight by Emma Chichester Clark -- Daphne and the Doughnuts by Jessie Burton -- A Dog in Time by Lauren St John -- The Toilet Ghost Dog! by Pamela Butchart -- Mouse by Emily Sutton -- Cats -- Be More Cat by Kiran Millwood Hargrave -- Hold on to Hope by Katie Abey -- The Naughtiest Cat I Have Ever Known by SF Said -- Lockdown Cat Haircut by Sharon Davey -- The Meeting by Nizrana Farook -- Birds -- Hope -- or, Learning the Language of Birds by Jackie Morris -- The Lamagaia Nest by Jasbinder Bilan -- Vince by Sarah Crossan -- Insects and Bugs -- Beastie Besties by Sara Ogilvie
The Hungriest Caterpillar by Isabel Thomas -- Consider the Dung Beetle by M. G. Leonard, with illustration by Carim Nahaboo -- Nature -- Joy by Laura Hughes -- A-Viking in the Springtime by Jonny Duddle -- The Green Road by Katherine Woodfine -- Flower Power by Fiona Woodcock -- Waterfall by Jo Cotterill -- Butterfly Field by Jo Cotterill -- The Helping Hand by Melissa Castrillón -- Things That Grow -- To Plant a Garden by Alex T. Smith -- Sunflower by Geraldine McCaughrean -- The One-Hundred-Year-Old Gardener by P.J. Lynch -- That Peeling Feeling by Jack Noel
Wherever a Flower Blooms by Rob Biddulph -- More and More Animals -- New Classmates by Emily Gravett -- Shark Puncher by Jessica Townsend -- Hare Time by Piers Torday -- A Golden Visitation by Ed Vere -- Hope Is an Ancient Reptile by Sophie Dahl -- The Hope-o-potamus by Greg James and Chris Smith -- Everything Crossed by Steven Lenton -- True Stories -- Silver by Hilary McKay -- Moses and the Watering Can by William Sutcliffe -- The Zoom of Doom by Francesca Simon -- How I Fainted in Front of the Queen by Ross Montgomery -- The Gift of Time by Sita Brahmachari, with illustration by Jane Ray

In difficult times, what children really need is hope. And in that spirit, bestselling author Katherine Rundell emailed some of the children's writers and artists whose work she loved most:'I asked them to write something very short, fiction or non-fiction, or draw something that would make the children reading it feel like possibility-ists: something that would make them laugh or wonder or snort or smile. The response was magnificent, which shouldn't have surprised me, because children's writers and illustrators are professional hunters of hope... I hope that the imagination can be a place of shelter for children and that The Book of Hopes might be useful in that, even if only a little.'