Being Ben
By: Jacqueline Roy ; illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain
Contributors: Chamberlain, Margaret, illustrator
Series: Racing reads; Racing reads
Publisher: Walker Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781406333060
Subjects: Fear; Snakes; Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: Ben's scared of lots of things - the new baby (it will have green hair and yellow eyes and poo and scream all the time), nasty stripes (they're everywhere) and the class bully (although it turns out he's scared of a few things himself!). When a neighbour's pet snake escapes a strange reversal occurs: suddenly everyone else is terrified, and Ben becomes the local hero, because there's one thing he's not afraid of: snakes!