Moose Baby - Softcover

Meg Rosoff s Moose Baby (£6.99), one of Barrington Stoke s excellent series for dyslexic teens, is a surreal story about a girl who gives birth to a moose. It s like a curious take on Metamorphosis but with laughs. It is full of subverted birth clichés from the midwife s Just look at his lovely wee hooves to the debate over names as the teenage parents realise Isabel is not an option. Nick stared at the furry creature in the cot. I could understand his disappointment. We d both been convinced we were having a girl. And a human being. --Dinah Hall, The Telegraph

Brilliantly funny teen drama from the consistently brilliant and Carnegie Medal winning author. Will it be a boy or a girl? Nothing can prepare Jess and Nick for when Jess gives birth to their first - moose. Four legs won't fit into a romper suit and what will grandma say? But there has been a spate of Non-Homo-Sapien births round the country and everyone else is coping, disembowelled labradors apart. The trials of being a parent - A moving and also hilarious take on relationships and motherhood - with a very powerful message. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyselxic readers of 12+