A glittering magical adventure about a girl, a bear and some very special shoes from the bestselling creators of `What the Ladybird Heard` and `Sugarlump and the Unicorn`.When Josephine leaves the shoe shop after buying some new running shoes, she hears an unusual sound – Click-click! Click-click! It`s a bear with a backpack! Luckily for Josephine, her new shoes are anything but ordinary – these are magic shoes. But can they help her escape the bear when there`s a mountain, a bog and even a lake in her way?`The Girl, the Bear and the Magic Shoes` is an exciting adventure from the stellar picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of `What the Ladybird Heard`. Full of action and imagination, and with a delightfully unexpected ending, this gorgeously glittery book is one to enjoy over and over again.Enjoy all the stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks: `Sharing a Shell`, `The Princess and the Wizard`, `The Rhyming Rabbit`, `The Singing Mermaid`, `Sugarlump and the Unicorn`, `Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox`, `What the Ladybird Heard`, `What the Ladybird Heard Next` and `What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday`.