Books

Mad About Minibeasts!

David Wojtowycz, Illustrator

Giles Andreae, Author

Paperback
Board book

Imprint: Orchard Books

Publication date: October 6, 2011

Category: Picture books

ISBN: 9781408309476

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Imprint: Orchard Books

Publication date: January 12, 2017

Category: Picture books

ISBN: 9781408341889

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Come into the garden for lots of rhyming minibeast fun in this colourful read-aloud picture book!

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. From slithery snails and buzzing bees, to wriggly worms and munching caterpillars!
Each page introduces a different animal, with a short read-aloud rhyme.

“Simple, cheerful and humorous rhymes … great fun to read together, and also makes a good introduction to learning about the world around us” – Booktrust

From the author of international bestseller, Giraffes Can’t Dance.

Reviews

A brilliantly bouncy rhyme about butterflies, beetles and all the slimiest creatures.

Sunday Express

This brilliantly bouncy beast-filled romp takes readers on a colourful journey.

Red House Children's Book Award

Big, bold illustrations and humorous rhymes.

Carousel

Simple, cheerful and humorous rhymes... great fun to read together, and also makes a good introduction to learning about the world around us.

booktrust

This is a fabulously fun and wonderfully rhyming book. * * * * *

Little Fiction Fascination

Noisy, rhyming, creepy-crawly fun

Bookseller

This is a fabulously fun and wonderfully rhyming book

Little Fiction Fascination

Simple, cheerful and humorous rhymes...great fun to read together and also make a good introduction to learning about the world around us.

Booktrust

The facts are basic and simple but accurately presented in a light-hearted way using big, bold illustrations and humorous rhymes. A lovely book.

Carousel

An explosion of noisy, rhyming creepy-crawly fun.

Bookseller

A brilliantly bouncy rhyme

Sunday Express

David Wojtowycz

David Wojtowycz is a bestselling, award-winning author and artist. He studied at Goldsmiths College in London, graduating with a degree in Fine Art. In 1996 David illustrated his first book for children, Rumble in the Jungle, which went on to become an international bestseller. 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. David lives in Berlin.

Giles Andreae

Giles Andreae is the author of many top-selling, award-winning picture books. These include Elephant Me, Rumble in the Jungle, Commotion in the Ocean and I Love My Mummy. However, it is for the international bestseller Giraffes Can’t Dance that he is best known. Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie, Britain’s favourite stickman, and of the artist/philosopher, Edward Monkton. These two ranges of greetings cards, books and merchandise have made Giles the country’s top-selling living poet. Giles lives with his wife, Victoria, a children’s clothes designer, and their four children by the river in Oxfordshire.