Grizzly Dad
by Joanna Harrison

Dad woke up in a grrrizzly mood. All morning he groaned and grizzled and grumped. And then he went back to bed! But when I pulled back the covers to see how he was, it wasn�t Dad in bed at all . . . it was a GREAT BIG GRIZZLY BEAR! Read more

Posted Wednesday�24th�November

...then all of a sudden they zip past. I looked out of the window yesterday and realized that it was almost Christmas. Actually, it wasn’t so much the looking out of the window that did it, it was the annual arrival of the mice. Each year at about this time, we start to get mice in the house. Where they come from I don’t know, but I think they’re here for the presents and chocolate. One year they neatly trimmed off the gold paper wrapping from all the chocolate coins and took tooth size...

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The DFB Blog has launched!
18th June 2010
Join Team DFB online for the grand opening of the new DFB blog. Johnny Swanson reviewed in the Times
1st May 2010
�Eleanor Updale�s Johnny Swanson belongs to this category, and it deserves the highest praise. Best-known for her charming Victorian adventures involving the burglar-turned gentleman spy Montmorency, she has taken an entirely new direction in a tale of a small, lonely boy who gets drawn into a serious crime involving the development of the TB vaccine.� Amanda Craig, The Times , Saturday 1st May 2010.

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