Once there was a goose called Katerina...
Katerina was the only goose on her pond, and this made her very sad and rather lonely.
Sometimes she thought she could see another goose in the side of the bank manager, Mr Buswell's shiny car. She would stare and stare at it, hoping that one day that goose would come out and join her on the pond.
"Just look at that silly bird!" said Mr Buswell. But everyone liked Katerina no matter what he said.
One dark Christmas night when everyone was at a party in the square, Katerina woke alone. She went to see the goose in the shiny car, but the goose had gone - had he come out at last? And who was that man with the goose-sized bag coming out of the bank? Was he carrying a goose-sized companion for Katerina? When Katerina stops him to find out, she becomes the local heroine and gains a wonderful reward - life on her pond will never be the same again...
There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Judith Kerr OBE was born in Berlin. Her family left Germany in 1933 to escape the rising Nazi party, and came to England. She studied at the Central School of Art and later worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC.
This book contains the following story:
The Other Goose
Katerina is lonely shes the only goose on her pond. Sometimes she sees another goose reflected in the side of Mr Buswell's shiny car and she waits for it to come out so she will no longer be the only goose. All her efforts to catch up with the other goose fail miserably, but one night just before Christmas she wakes to find it has snowed, the car is no longer shiny and the goose has gone. Katerina is convinced that the goose has come out and that the man with the goose sized bag has captured her other goose. She chases him into the crowd where he is discovered to have robbed the bank. As a reward the town give Katerina a goose friend to share her pond with.
