Sharon, keep your hair on

Gillian Rubinstein (words) and David Mackintosh (pictures), A Mark Macleod Book,Random House, Australia. first published 1996, reprint 2004.

So Sharon said,

'Jase, we need more space,

We'll have to move to a bigger place.'

Jase said, 'Sharon,

Keep your hair on,

I'll just build a little bit more on.

I can put another floor on.'

Jason is a builder whose family grows and grows; children, ponies, unicycles, sobbing sister in law and unruly family, safari-going parents and a pining gorilla (the full wonder of family life). He just keeps taking out the saw and adding on another floor. Zany rhyming fun. Great ending. I can read this over and over (and do).

'Very sorry to trouble you, lad.

We're coming home. We've sold the villa.

Can we stay, just me and Priscilla?

and the gorilla?

Called K.K..'