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OOPS!
**A hilarious picture book about saying the importance of saying 'Sorry'. Manners have never been so much fun!**
You probably know it's good manners to ALWAYS say 'Sorry' when you make a mistake. But when Clare forgets this very simple rule (OOPS!), the consequences are stranger than she could ever have imagined.
Get ready for a laugh-out-loud adventure featuring dragons, trolls, polar explorers and a whole load of furious fishermen. Saying 'Sorry' has never been so important!
You probably know it's good manners to ALWAYS say 'Sorry' when you make a mistake. But when Clare forgets this very simple rule (OOPS!), the consequences are stranger than she could ever have imagined.
Get ready for a laugh-out-loud adventure featuring dragons, trolls, polar explorers and a whole load of furious fishermen. Saying 'Sorry' has never been so important!
- GenresPicture Books
34 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 21, 2026
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Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
Thank you so much to Bloomsbury Children’s Books and Netgalley for the ebook to read and review.
Clare breaks things and causes problems wherever she goes, but she never says sorry for any of her mistakes. The people around her just want one simple word, but she has to cause even more problems before it gets heard, and she learns her lesson.
I loved the rhyming of the story it’s was so much fun to read. I like that it is teaching manners throughout showing all the bad things she was doing, the hurting, breaking stealing without a second thought. Then it shows her being better about it later, apologising and making it up to those she has harmed.
The illustrations were great fun to look at, seeing all her adventures, all the different characters, I especially loved the inside of the troll with all the various things trapped inside him, was so funny. I liked seeing her kindness deeds afterwards and what she did do to help those around her that she upset before.
A really wonderful book, so beautiful to read, stunning to look at and so amusing, with a great lesson on kindness, manners and not causing so much trouble for those around you.
Clare breaks things and causes problems wherever she goes, but she never says sorry for any of her mistakes. The people around her just want one simple word, but she has to cause even more problems before it gets heard, and she learns her lesson.
I loved the rhyming of the story it’s was so much fun to read. I like that it is teaching manners throughout showing all the bad things she was doing, the hurting, breaking stealing without a second thought. Then it shows her being better about it later, apologising and making it up to those she has harmed.
The illustrations were great fun to look at, seeing all her adventures, all the different characters, I especially loved the inside of the troll with all the various things trapped inside him, was so funny. I liked seeing her kindness deeds afterwards and what she did do to help those around her that she upset before.
A really wonderful book, so beautiful to read, stunning to look at and so amusing, with a great lesson on kindness, manners and not causing so much trouble for those around you.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
A lively and fun nonsense poem, but with a moral and a point, as Clare goes around making mistakes here, breaking things there, and generally just passing everything off with an "oops" or at best a "whoops". The universe won't settle for that, however, and soon puts her at harm's risk from a dragon, a troll's stomach, a storm, and so much more, until she learns the error of her ways. Very lively presentation won't make this fully readable for those with issues where strange typefaces and line patterns are concerned, but the rest of us will appreciate the limerick-styled bounce of the rhymed narrative. To my mind, though, it didn't fully knuckle down and say why Clare was so at fault and impolite, therefore only four stars. Whoopsy.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
A beautiful illustrated children’s story. This follows the little girl Clare who has a few ‘Oops’ moments. It helps to strengthen both manners and a positive attitude to help you grow from your mistakes. I read this book with my daughter and we both really enjoyed it. Highly recommended.
Review of advance copy
Not quite what I thought it would be, but reasonably funny about a girl who says "oops" instead of "sorry".
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