Mad About Minibeasts! Board Book

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We do a nature study with a small group of small children, and this book was a good addition to our collection of nature books! A Cuddle For Claude was nominated for the Sheffield Book Award and Claude is now the subject of a popular animated TV series.

Come into the garden for lots of noisy, rhyming creepy-crawly fun from the creators of Rumble in the Jungle and Commotion in the Ocean. Giles has written many award-winning and best-selling children's books, including the global classic, Giraffes Can't Dance.Little ones will love joining in with all the noisy sound words and looking at the colourful pictures, as they discover all sorts of minibeasts. Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stickman, and of the artist/philosopher, Edward Monkton.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The book has clearly not been printed correctly and has big white lines at the top of both the cover and the pages inside.These two ranges of greetings cards, books and merchandise have made Giles the country's top-selling living poet. The book has lovely little poems in about each creature, is colourful and has renewed our two year olds love of insects. The facts are basic and simple but accurately presented in a light-hearted way using big, bold illustrations and humorous rhymes. Rhyming text and vibrant full-page illustrations make this marvellous picture book perfect for reading aloud.

In 1996 David illustrated his first book for children, Rumble in the Jungle , which went on to become an international bestseller.great fun to read together, and also makes a good introduction to learning about the world around us" - BooktrustFrom the author of international bestseller, Giraffes Can't Dance. Giles lives with his wife, Victoria, a children's clothes designer, and their four children by the river in Oxfordshire. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

David has gone on to create many more hugely successful children's books, including The Lion Who Wanted to Love , winner of the Red House Book Award, and the bestselling Mad About Minibeasts . This successful author/illustrator pairing won the picture book section of the Children's Book Award with The Lion Who Wanted To Love. My husband has a crazy entomophobia so we decided to introduce our little baby to insects early on in life. He has won the Federation of Children's Book Award and the Book Trust Early Years Award, but he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stickman. From slugs and snails to bustling beetles and beautiful butterflies, these rhymes are full of humour and great to read aloud.All the images are clear and colourful, making it a friendly introduction to minibeasts in a gentle and fun way (especially for the reluctant child who is maybe not so keen on certain bugs). great fun to read together, and also makes a good introduction to learning about the world around us. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.