by Margaret Mahy and Polly Dunbar
Frances Lincoln, hardback, £11.99
Little Mabel blows a bubble so big that it 'bobbles' over baby and wafts him away. Family and townsfolk are drawn in one by one as baby floats overhead. Among them are 'crippled Mr Copple and his wife (a crabby couple)', and Tybal and his mum Sybil, joining the rush after 'they both began to babble and to scrobble with the Scrabble, as the baby in the bubble bibble-bobbled by the board.' In the end, rascal, rebel Abel bursts the bubble with his catapult, and the crowd catches the baby in a quilt as he tumbles out of the sky.
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