Meg and Ash Magpie are very excited! They are building a nest. First a high tree is chosen, then the building begins. Sticks and twigs, mud and grass first of course. Then a discarded magazine to line the nest. Four lovely new eggs now sit among the pictures of the magazine.

The longer they sit on the eggs and look at the magazine full of shiny pictures, the more they decide the nest needs.

They fetch socks, pegs and clocks. Then a teddy, lights, and a mop. More and more. Their nest needs more. Their chicks need MORE! Crash! The unthinkable happens!

What do their chicks really need?

Another wonderfully written, rhyming picture book full of Emily Gravett’s sumptuous signature illustration style. Magpies are known hoarders, and Meg and Ash Magpie take things to the extreme, wanting everything for their chicks.

Set in the same forest a previous Gravett title (Tidy) is set, Too Much Stuff also follows an Environmental theme.

A subtle poke at our own lifestyles, these bird parents nearly learn the hard way what is really important. Superb!

Author / Illustrator – Emily Gravett

Picture Book

(2020, Macmillan UK, Environment, Magpies, Birds, Nesting, Commercialism, Gadgets and Gizmos, Rubbish, Stuff)