Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? Award-winning author by Lauren Child (author) (UK edition)

Have you ever fallen into a book? Well, if you do, just make sure it isn’t a fairy tale. Because in every one there’s always a wicked this, an evil that or a hungry somebody just waiting to gobble you up. Herb, star of Beware of the Storybook Wolves, returns in this thrilling tale from Kate Greenaway Medal winner Lauren Child. What will happen when he falls into his book of fairy tales? Read on to find out! ‘A thrilling story to scare your socks off.’ The Bookseller ‘Wonderfully imaginative…Absorbing and with fantastical, zany pictures.’ The Observer ‘Very, very funny and definitely not to be missed!’ Books for Keeps

Product Details

Catalogue number

1144 in ISBC EU Education Cat 2024/25

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781408307724

Publisher

Orchard Books

Date published

October 4th, 2012

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

30copies
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? x 30

Award-winning author

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Offer price: €311.60

RRP: €311.61

gbp prices

Price: £239.70
6copies
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? x 6

Award-winning author

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Offer price: €62.30

RRP: €62.32

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Price: £47.94

Author/Illustrator

Lauren Child

Lauren Child burst on to the children’s books scene in 1999 and has since published many bestselling and award-winning books, including those featuring the hugely popular Charlie and Lola, and the Clarice Bean series. Lauren was born in 1967, and grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire. After studying Art at Manchester Polytechnic and London Art School, she worked in a variety of jobs, including assistant to Damien Hirst. She also started her own company, ‘Chandeliers for the People’, making exotic lampshades.

Her first children’s book Clarice Bean, That’s Me won a Bronze medal at the Nestle Smarties Book Awards. In 2000, she won the prestigious Kate Greenaway medal for I Will Not Ever, Never Eat a Tomato followed by a second Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2002 for That Pesky Rat. Clarice Bean became the star of Lauren’s first novel Utterly Me, Clarice Bean in 2002, and went on to appear in two more novels. A television series based on her Charlie and Lola books has also become a huge hit for CBBC. Read more