When Fred the Snake Got Squished And Mended

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>2020 Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Quirky and playful...instructional and enjoyable.... In the vein of the great cautionary tales from writers like Hilaire Belloc to Roald Dahl <em>How Fred the Snake Got Squished</em> <em>and Mended </em>uses witty illustrations and multi-layered language to hide an important message within a wildly entertaining story. <em>-The Children's Book Review</em></strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Fred came from a steamy forest spot</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>where even winter days are hot.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The home of hairy beasts that go oink-oink</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>and drop things on your head boink-boink.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Fred the Snake knows all about jungle life but the busy city streets are a different story! When Fred spots a spinning barber pole across the road he forgets to look both ways before slithering into traffic. In an instant poor Fred is squished clean in two by a speeding ambulance!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Rushed to the hospital on a makeshift stretcher Fred fears he may never be the same again. The doctors are ready to help but they need a rare bendy thread only found deep in the jungle beneath the watchful feet of enormous rhinos. Can the fearless Jungle Jim retrieve the special thread in time to save Fred?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Filled with playful rhymes laugh-out-loud humor and vibrant illustrations </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> is a wildly entertaining adventure with an important lesson about road safety woven throughout.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>...a book which is going to be picked up time and time again because it's so well written and...very playful... <em>-The Bookbag Top Ten Self-Published Books 2021</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>This amusing story is wonderfully written in rhyming narrative verse full of British style wit and charm.... Move over for 'Fred-Fred' Lewis Carroll! -<em>Midwest Book Review Children's Bookwatch</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>...a perfect selection for story time and...most highly recommended. <em>-Readers' Favorite</em></strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 0 1)><em> </em></strong></p>