This is a gentle, rhyming story, full of beautiful baby animals and perfect for bedtime. One by one, all the animals in the forest wake up to find something very special has happened - they don't know what it is yet but they know it's very special. They each gather a gift and form a procession to find out what it is. Finally they reach a clearing and there they meet a beautiful, shy and wonderful newborn baby fawn.

 

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 2006 by Penguin Books Ltd .

John Butler is known and highly respected for his wildlife picture books. He has illustrated six titles for Puffin, all by Theresa Radcliffe. John lives in Kent with his wife and two grown-up daughters. Christine Morton-Shaw is a well-known picture book author with seven picture books and one fiction title to her name. She created the Magoosy character for Macmillan and has also worked on several Stringalongs titles. Christine lives in Sheffield with her husband and their children. John Butler is best known for his wildlife picture books. His Puffin titles have sold over 250, 000 copies and include a series he has illustrated for Teresa Radcliffe as well as his own bestselling Whose Baby Am I? and If You See a Kitten. John lives in Kent with his wife. Christine Morton-Shaw lives in Sheffield with her husband and six children. She loves fishing, reading and diaries. Her main ambition is to catch a 20lb-plus carp. If she ever gets rich, she will buy a very big shoe and move her large family into it, as she often feels like the old woman in the nursery rhyme with so many children, she doesn't know what to do. Pub Quizzes help keep her sane, although she seldom wins any of them.