$25.99
- Hardcover
64 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2024
Summary
Joy Cowley knows what makes children laugh.
In this book full of absurd poems and very short, silly stories, a man takes his tadpoles for a walk in his hat, a cat is surprised by its talking feet, a tiger gobbles up a dentist, ten baggy clowns do a do-wacky dance … along with many more preposterous flights of imagination. Illustrations by David Barrow—a first-rate visual comedian—expand the humor in each fantastical suggestion. Cowley channels the spirit of classic, s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781776575978 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1776575970 |
| Author: | Joy Cowley, David Barrow |
| Publisher: | Gecko Press |
| Imprint: | Gecko Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 197mm x 260mm |
| Audience Age: | 6-11 |
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Critics Review
“With clear rhymes that will be fun to read aloud, Cowley has crafted a collection that has merit both at home and in the classroom, with rhymes playing with early language and sentence structures and encouraging the most absurd of imaginations.“—Books+Publishing
Joy Cowley
Joy Cowley is a celebrated New Zealand writer for children and adults, who has won many awards and honors. These include a New Zealand Arts Foundation Icon Award for lifetime achievement, the Prime Minister’s Award for contribution to literature, and shortlisting for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
David Barrow is a graduate of the Cambridge School of Art where he completed a Masters in Children’s Book Illustration and received the top prize, the Sebastian Walker award for most promising children’s illustrator. He lives in England with his wife and son.
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