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Family Life not Cheap

The Sammy stories are stories of family life. When I was young, I particularly liked stories (often read out loud by by mother) about families in which the parents and children actually got on well wi ........

'A bit more human than human'

This is a phrase used by Sammy to describe himself (page 25) to Mr Collins, the people counter. In fact Mr Collins thinks he's been shown by the dragon family 'how to actually be a human'.Human beings ........

The story behind a story

One of the stories is unusual in that it is a story within a story. It's about a book (Sammy reads) called 'Mr Good Bear and Mr Bad Bear'. It has a rather interesting origin. Most of the stories were ........