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Peter Utton, Illustrator
Sally Grindley, Author
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Publication date: October 2, 2014
Category: Picture storybooks
ISBN: 9780340746622
** Winner of the Children’s Book Award – Gold **
** Runner-up for the Smarties Prize **
‘Simple but ingenious’ Sunday Telegraph
Shhh! You are about to enter a giant’s castle. Be very quiet. Can you get through the book without waking up the enormous scary giant? What will you do if he wakes up? Why shut the book of course!
An interactive retelling of a classic fairy tale with flaps and peepholes that will keep children hooked! From the bestselling, award-winning author Sally Grindley, this is the perfect book for reading aloud and sharing together.
Adored by children around the world for nearly 30 years!
‘This book is FANTASTIC for storytime with a group of children. It’s great to read it with inflection, pretending to be scared of the giant and telling the kids to SHHH!’ Goodreads reviewer
‘With its understated text and imaginative artwork, this unusual work draws readers into story and setting in a way that few picture books can’ Publishers Weekly
‘I have worked in a pre-school for 24 years and this is by far their favourite book. The children sit there quietly and as you read the book they are hooked!’ Amazon reviewer
Sally began writing in 1984 while working as Editorial Director of a nationwide children’s book club. She has been writing full time since 1995 and has had over 150 books published – from picture books to young readers to young novels. She won the Nestle Smarties Gold Award for her children’s novel, Spilled Water, and her Hodder picture book, Shhh! (with Peter Utton), won the Children’s Book Award, as well as being runner-up for the Smarties Prize. Keep Out!, Help! and It’s the Troll! have followed on from Shhh!, all of them illustrated by Peter Utton, and all of them sharing great elements of surprise and humour, designed to encourage fun interaction with their audience.
Peter Utton is well-known as the illustrator of many popular picture books.
Peter Utton is an author and illustrator of children’s picture books. Peter has written and illustrated seven books including The Witch’s Hand which won the Austrian Children’s Book Prize, was runner-up of The Mother Goose Award and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. He has also illustrated over forty books by other authors – the most recent of which – Keep Out!, Help! and the forthcoming It’s the Troll! written by Sally Grindley and published by Hodder – follow the same wonderfully innovative and interactive format as the award-winning Shhh!, winner of The Children’s Book Prize and runner-up for the Smarties Prize.