Will Natterjack Toad EVER get to eat his cookies? Or will he become a SNACK himself?

Do you have a favourite snack? One you’ve been thinking about all day, and just can’t wait to tuck into? Well, our friend Natterjack Toad has a packet of delicious chocolate-chunk crunchy-munch cookies and he can’t wait to tuck in. So, he gets himself all nice and comfortable, ready to savour every last chocolately bite – he reaches into the packet, he opens his mouth, and then …

Natterjack Toad can’t believe it! Every time he tries to eat his cookies, there’s something in the way: a lanky heron, a frisky-whiskered weasel, a scurrying vole – all on the lookout for a (toady) snack themselves. Will he ever be able to eat his chocolate-chunk crunchy-munch cookies in peace?

Natterjack Toad Can’t Believe It! is a young children’s picture book about a toad who just wants to eat his crunchy chocolate chip cookie but every time he tries to something happens and he has to stop before he can take a bite or the noise might give away his position to predators.

The book is good fun and will have little ones laughing along. There is quite a lot of text within the book though parts are repeated on each double-page. The plot is enjoyable and exciting and the illustrations which are full-page, bright, and colourful help to bring Toad and his friends to life.

Overall, who doesn’t love a story that features chocolate chip cookies? I’m sure youngsters will. This is a perfect book for a bedtime story.

Sean Taylor has written more than 60 books for young readers. These include picture books such as Hoot Owl Master of Disguise, How to be Cooler than Cool, and I Want to Be in a Scary Story, illustrated by Jean Jullien, and A Brave Bear, illustrated by Emily Hughes. He’s the author of The Dream Train, a much-loved collection of poems for bedtime, illustrated by Anuska Allepuz. And for 30 years he’s been encouraging children to write poems themselves.