Book Descriptions
for Don't Want to Go! by Shirley Hughes
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
From the Publisher
Mum is ill and Dad has to go to work, so Lily will have to go to Melanie's house for the day. Dad says she'll have lots of fun, but there's a problem: Lily doesn't want to go! Join Lily as she braves Melanie's house, and realizes that doing new things needn't be scary after all . . .
"The emotions are pitch perfect; Hughes takes the simplest of themes . . . and gives it universal significance" Sunday Telegraph
"Don't Want to Go! - about a toddler's insecurity - is marvellous" Observer
A wonderfully reassuring tale from Shirley Hughes, creator of Dogger, voted the public's favourite CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal winner of all time.