The Ugly Five by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler - what did your child think?

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Introducing the new picture book by The Gruffalo creators, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. The Ugly Five is perfect for readers aged 3+. Find out more about the brains behind this book and so many others.

Meet Wildebeest and Warthog, Spotted Hyena, Lappet-Faced Vulture and Marabou Stork. People call them the Ugly Five - but are they really?

On safari, Julia Donaldson was introduced to the admired 'Big Five': Lion, Leopard, Elephant, Rhino and Buffalo. However, she was more intrigued by the 'Ugly Five' and made them the stars of her new story – brought to life by Axel Scheffler's pictures.

We ask all winners to share their child's thoughts on the book. Everyone who posts their detailed feedback by midday, Monday 20 November will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 Love2shop voucher.

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This would be great for my ds well all 4 kids their firm faves of JD and AS books. In fact we read highway rat for bedtime this evening

the link won't let me enter the giveaway, is there another way of getting in to it?

Oh, I love JD
We once saw her and her husband perform Stickman. In German.
Neither one of them speak German but they thought they'd give it a bash
They were magnificent. I love people who don't take themselves too seriously.

Link is not working for me either.

Hang on, the link in the first paragraph of MNHQ's OP worked for me just there

Apologies - both links are now working :)

Applied :) My DD loves their books!

Great, I've managed to complete my details now. Keeping my fingers crossed X

Fingers crossed for a copy.

DD and I love her books .... current favourite A squash and a squeeze

Received my email to say I have been successful in obtaining a free copy!!

Can't wait to read with DD!!

Has anyone recieved their copy yet?

I haven't received mine!

Me either. Though it had been a while.

We haven't received ours yet either.

Nope, still not received our copy. Glad it's not just me!

We haven't received ours yet either.

Hi folks - we're just looking into this now!

Thank you! Have replied to the email too :)

Thank you. Have also replied to the email

I still haven’t received my copy - has anyone else?

Me neither! Have they been sent out yet MNHQ?

Ours has just arrived. It’s the hardback edition as well. Will have a very excited 3 year old after preschool :-)

Oooh - hope mines at home when I get there

We received our book today and I read it to my eldest who is almost 5.

We absolutely loved it! We're massive Julia Donaldson fans and she has authored some of our favourite children's books so we were really excited to give this one a read.

The book is in rhyming form, which is something my son loves as we're massive poetry fans and he loves stories with a rhythm.

It also has a good moral too - that someone could feel the ugliest person in the world but that someone out there will think they're the most loveliest. :)

In all we loved the book!

Got the book through this morning and my boys couldn’t wait until bedtime to read it. They are lovers of room on a broom and the gruffalo so big Julia Donaldson fans already.

They loved that the book was about real animals and really felt for them for thinking they were ugly. The sheer joy when the babies came out calling them the lovely five was amazing.

We have been learning and researching a lot of animals recently at home so they really loved the pictures of the different animals in the back and have told me they will be drawing them tomorrow 😊