When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos, they're always just one step ahead of him. This counting book won the 1992 Smarties Children's Choice Award.
When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos, they're always just one step ahead of him. This counting book won the 1992 Smarties Children's Choice Award.
When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos, they're always just one step ahead of him. This counting book won the 1992 Smarties Children's Choice Award. 'Professor Dupont is the proud owner of ten troublesome cockatoos. When his "feathered friends" as he calls them, escape one fine morning, the subsequent hide and seek makes a wonderfully enjoyable story' - DAILY MAIL 'Cockatoos must be the funniest and subtlest counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll' - THE GUARDIAN 'There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this... one of the best picture books of this, or any other, year' - BOOKS FOR YOUR CHILDREN Quentin Blake was appointed the First Children's Laureate in 1999.
“For pure fun, read again - and again - Quentin Blake's masterly Cockatoos”
"" -- Gwynneth Bailey TES 20040302 "A wonderfully enjoyable story" Daily Mail "Must be the funniest and subtles counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll" Guardian "There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this" Books for your Children
QUENTIN BLAKE is Britain's leading illustrator, and was chosen as the first Children's Laureate.
Smarties Book Prize Winner. Quentin Blake was appointed the First Children's Laureate in 1999.
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