Little by Little - Amber Stewart

This book is written by Amber Stewart and tells the story of a young otter, Scramble who can't swim. While his friends enjoy the water he either pretends to swim in the shallows or walks along beside them on the riverbank. His mum would practice with him everyday but he just couldn't do it until one week when instead of trying to accomplish the whole thing in one day, he tried doing it step by step. The text in this book starts off very big and sparse and it isn't until you get a few pages in that it suddenly becomes a lot smaller and there is more to it. It's very easy to read and doesn't have the 'all over the place' feel to the text. The ...  Read the complete review