Hello, this is Jana, and I'm here with a special episode of Story Norrie that Candlewick Press has kindly sponsored.

It's a review of a gorgeous and sensitive picture book called Mindy and the Goose No One Else Could See.

By Sam McBrattney. This is how the book begins.

Once there was a girl called Mindy who was afraid of something that no one else could see.

This thing that she was afraid of, this thing that no one else could see was a big goose.

It came into her room as quietly as a thought comes into your head,

and it stayed there for as long as it wanted to.

When she told her dad about it, he said,

Oh, what? There's a goose in your room?

He searched high and low for the big goose, but he could not find it.

Mindy's mum made fun of it.

She waved a wooden spoon above her head and said,

Any goose that comes in here will get a smack on his silly bottom. Mindy thought the big goose might be angry about the wooden spoon.

Mum and Dad shut the window tight.

But windows, walls and doors couldn't stop the big goose.

It came and stayed as usual.

It's not real, her mum said.

Nobody has a goose in their room.

I do, said Mindy.

Well, you'll just have to close your eyes and make it not real, her mother said.

Well, if you want to know what happens next to Mindy and the Big Goose, you can find out by reading the book.

What I can tell you is that from the delicate and charming illustrations we can see that Mindy's goose looms large on her bedroom wall.

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