In this week's show we answer three questions from Bea, Beatrice and Wilf with help from special guest expert Lauren Child. Highly entertaining and highly re-listenable (an important quality for something your kids will enjoy). And Joe suggests to us how this intensely local story, sturdy with work and things, shining with the visible world, opens out into larger meanings and ideas. Our next question is from Cleo in Australia, we find out why poo is stinky, as well as how to make it LESS stinky by eating healthy food and doing exercise.

This week Lauren Child, author of Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort answers the extra Christmassy question 'why do elves have pointy ears?Love Molly xIf you'd like to send me a questions for the podcast or the new book I am writing do check out www. These imponderable questions are just a small sample of the 366 that are posed and answered in this fabulous compendium of information.

I’d pitch this from 5+ if you’re reading with your child, but this’ll keep our lower to middle primary schoolers busy too!

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