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Mad About Minibeasts! Board Book

David Wojtowycz, Illustrator

Giles Andreae, Author

Imprint: Orchard Books

Publication date: January 12, 2017

Category: Picture books

ISBN: 9781408341889

Imprint: Orchard Books

Publication date: October 6, 2011

Category: Picture books

ISBN: 9781408309476

A colourful rhyming board book all about minibeasts.

Come into the garden for lots of creepy-crawly fun … 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 – including ladybirds, beetles, wriggly worms, snails and munching caterpillars!

‘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 creators of the bestselling Rumble in the Jungle and Commotion in the Ocean.

Reviews

A brilliantly bouncy rhyme

Sunday Express

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.

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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.