{"product_id":"never-insult-the-yellow-cheese","title":"Never Insult the Yellow Cheese","description":"\u003cp\u003eNever complain about the colour of your cheese at seven in the morning. By two in the afternoon, it will get you back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLena has a talent: she can find the flaw in anything in two seconds. Cold eggs. A creased skirt. The wrong-coloured cheese. Three complaints before she even reaches the school gate — and a radio station in her head broadcasting nothing but bad news, twenty-four hours a day, no music breaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, at a quarter past two, her six-year-old brother Noah collapses in the playground. His lunchbox is untouched. A folded note falls out of his sweater pocket. Lena puts it in her bag and doesn't open it for two days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Lena works out — with help from her mum, a second-hand bicycle and one very quiet boy in Year One — begins inside that note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor every child who wants what everyone else has, and every parent who has heard 'my life is miserable' over a perfectly good breakfast. A story about noticing, told gently and never preachy. Giving and receiving are handled with real dignity: nobody is pitied, nobody is guilt-tripped, and Lena's mum flatly refuses the 'other children have nothing' line. Gratitude is something Lena works out for herself, never something she is handed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout, and rounded off with discussion questions, family activities, puzzles and games, and an original song.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers ages 8–12 who love funny diary stories, real-life family chaos, and heroines with strong opinions about breakfast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 8 of Lena's Real Life Adventures. Each book stands alone — start anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookVAULT Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67758924235056,"sku":"9781807388546","price":13.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9781807388546.jpg?v=1788947150","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/never-insult-the-yellow-cheese","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}