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Review: the travelling bookshop: mim and the baffling bully.

Mim tries to dig a little deeper into the bully's life. Gerda seems to have everything a kid could want. So why is she so nasty and why does she bother to pick on the unassuming Willemina?

Mim needs to work with the bookstore and learn about the nature of bullying - and also find out who the one that actually needs to change is.

This is Book One in the series of the travelling bookshop, and I cant wait to see where Flossy will take the eccentric family to next. 

A sweet book brimming with line drawings by the talented Cheryl Orsini. 

Both Nannestad and Orsini have numerous children's books published between them, and you can read reviews for them  here  and  here .

Title: The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Baffling Bully Author: Katrina Nannestad Illustrator: Cheryl Orsini Publisher: Harper Collins, $14.99 Publication Date: 28 July 2021 Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780733341656 For ages: 7+ Type: Junior Fiction

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Mim and the Baffling Bully : The Traveling Bookshop #1

By katrina nannestad illustrated by cheryl orsini reviewed by sarah custance.

Their loyal Clydesdale Flossy pulls the bookshop to wherever they are needed the most so that Mim’s dad can use his knack for giving people books that they don’t necessarily want but that they do unknowingly need. When the family arrives in a picturesque Dutch village, Mim is sure that they are there to help Willemina, a kind young girl who is being bullied by Gerda, a beautiful but mean classmate.

But when Mim’s dad hands Willemina a book on bugs and not one to help make her strong and brave, Mim is sure that he is giving out the wrong books! Can the bookshop work its magic on the small village and bring people together or will the wrong book just end up making everything else worse?

Packed with the strong themes of the true meaning and value of friendship and family, readers young and old will be delighted in this new, magical story full of uplifting messages and many book references.

Cheryl Orsini’s sweet and charming illustrations throughout the book help to draw the reader into this quirky story where lambs might fly, caravans have unlimited room, hedgehogs live in dictionaries, and “the line between books and real life is not as clear as most people suppose”!

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READING LEVEL: GREEN

Have you been lucky enough to find the perfect book? Author Katrina Nannestad’s newest series, The Travelling Bookshop, is all about finding the perfect book, the one that can change your life.

“Books are powerful, books take us to other worlds, they can help us escape our own world, they show us what’s possible, they help us to dream and imagine and become something different,” Katrina said.

“I am hoping that my book, The Travelling Bookshop, will be like that for someone who reads it.”

The first book in the series, The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Baffling Bully, is our Book Club book of the month for August.

About The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Baffling Bully, by Katrina Nannestad and illustrated by Cheryl Orsini

The right book might just change your life …

Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they’re needed most … the place where the perfect book will find its way home.

Now Mim has arrived in a pretty Dutch village where she meets Willemina, a kind and gentle child, who is being bullied by a girl named Gerda.

Mim knows they’re here to help Willemina. To change her life. To make her strong and brave and happy.

If only Dad would find her the right book. If only he would stop giving everyone else the wrong book!

From the beloved author of The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome and We Are Wolves comes an enchanting series for young readers.

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CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

1. Katrina Nannestad has said: “The dream of a travelling home has stuck with me over the years – a bus, a balloon, a barge, a horse-drawn caravan, a caboose at the back of a train.”

• What would your dream home be? Think big – it could be anything, anywhere!
• What would you fill it with?
• Who would live there with you?
• The Travelling Bookshop has a special kind of magic around books and language. What special magic would your dream home have?
• Draw a picture of your dream home from the outside and a map of what it looks like on the inside.

2. Mim knows that the right books in the right hands can change lives, because books are magic. Bring a book to class that has changed your life.

Share your favourite part of the book with the class and talk about why it’s so special to you.

• When did you first read it?
• How did it make you feel?
• What else was happening in your life at the time?
• Is there someone in your class who you think would benefit from reading the book?

3. Mim collects words, turning them this way and that until she finds the right way to look at them to discover something new. “Worms away”, from the label on the box used to bully Willemina, becomes a sign for earthworms on holiday.

• What is special about the words Mim collects? Why does she choose those particular words?
• Find some words around the house and bring them to class – you might find words on labels or boxes, or in the newspaper. Try to find words that are interesting or meaningful to you.
• Put everyone’s words together into a hat and shake them up. Everyone in the class will now draw two words out of the hat (no peeking!) and write a story inspired by them.
• What does Nat collect? Gerda? Does Willemina collect anything?

4. Why does Gerda pick on Willemina?

• Does this make it okay?
• What are three other things Gerda could have done to express what she was feeling?

5. Nat’s act of kindness – when he offers Willemina his tutu to replace her worm-encrusted skirt – makes Willemina’s day. How does her mood change when he gives her the tutu?

• Share three acts of kindness that you’ve performed recently.

6. Mim makes a list of the things that make her happy.

• What are five things that have made you happy today?
• Do you think Willemina is happy?
• What about Gerda? Why?
• What does Mim’s dad say about unhappy people?
• What book would you give to someone feeling unhappy to help them? Why?

7. It seems like Mim’s dad plays with Mim and Nat instead of teaching them, but they actually learn about many important things. List some of the different concepts Mim and Nat learn while playing with their father.

• Design a lesson that seems to be just about having fun and playing, but actually teaches children an important maths or science concept.

8. Throughout The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Baffling Bully, the author gives us so much imagery that it’s easy for us to picture what it’s like to be in a small town in the Netherlands, even if we haven’t been there.

• List all of the Dutch elements that the author tells us about (don’t forget all the different kinds of food!).
• Which three elements do you think she has described the best? What techniques has she used?
• Imagine that you are describing your classroom to someone who has never seen a school before. Select the five elements that you think are most important to being able to imagine a classroom, and write descriptions of them using at least two different kinds of imagery in each one.

9. At the end of the novel, Willemina writes Mim a letter, thanking her for being such an amazing friend. Write a letter to someone you care about, thanking them for being your friend and explaining what it is that makes them someone you’re happy to have in your life.

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The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Baffling Bully (the Travelling Bookshop, #1) Katrina Nannestad Cheryl Orsini (Illustrator)

Reviewed by - maia m - age 10, summary: mim and her family arrive in the netherlands only to find out that a girl called wilhelmina is being bullied by a girl named gerda, mim is sure that they are here to help wilhelmina but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s her that needs changing. will mim’s dad find the right book and will he do it before it’s too late... what is the best thing about this book - the best thing about this book is that it shows if you look hard enough you can see the soft side in everyone, maybe even get them to change for the better this book would appeal to readers who like these books: fantasy, happy endings and fairy tales. i rate this book out of 5: 2 out 5stars.

The right book might just change your life ...

Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home.

Now Mim has arrived in a pretty Dutch village where she meets Willemina, a kind and gentle child, who is being bullied by a girl named Gerda.

Mim knows they're here to help Willemina. To change her life. To make her strong and brave and happy.

If only Dad would find her the right book. If only he would stop giving everyone else the wrong book!

From the beloved author of The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome and We Are Wolves comes an enchanting series for young readers.

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• About the Author

Katrina Nannestad is an award-winning Australian author. Her books include We Are Wolves, The Girl Who Brought Mischief, the Girl, the Dog and the Writer series, the Olive of Groves series, the Red Dirt Diaries series, the Lottie Perkins series and Bungaloo Creek. We Are Wolves is shortlisted in the 2021 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. Katrina grew up in country New South Wales in a neighbourhood stuffed full of happy children. Her adult years have been spent teaching, raising boys, perfecting her recipe for chocolate-chip bickies and pursuing her love of stories. She now lives near Bendigo with her family and an exuberant black whippet called Olive. Learn more at www.katrinanannestad.com Cheryl Orsini is the much-loved illustrator of The Fairy Dancers, The Tales of Mrs Mancini and The Magic Bookshop. She has illustrated more than thirty children's books, and her work regularly appears in magazines and exhibitions. For more, visit www.cherylorsini.com

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The Travelling Bookshop: 1- Mim and the Baffling Bully

• Katrina Nannestad, Illustrator Cheryl Orsini
• ABC Books – AU
• ISBN: 9780733341656

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2022 CBCA Book of the Year Notables – Younger Readers

right book might just change your life …

Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they’re needed most … the place where the perfect book will find its way home.

Now Mim has arrived in a pretty Dutch village where she meets Willemina, a kind and gentle child, who is being bullied by a girl named Gerda.

Mim knows they’re here to help Willemina. To change her life. To make her strong and brave and happy.

If only Dad would find her the right book. If only he would stop giving everyone else the  wrong  book!

From the beloved author of  The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome  and  We Are Wolves  comes an enchanting series for young readers.

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