Who doesn’t love a trip to the farm? Well, you’ll love it even more in this novelty book by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It’s a farm in a book! It’s got moving machines, quacking ducks, mooing cows, neighing horses … all the things you’d find on a real farm. The only thing it’s not got is the smell, which is all good! Pull the sliders, turn the wheels and make the animal noises for hours of farmyard fun. PS: think the pictures look a bit familiar? Well, Axel is the genius artist who illustrated The Gruffalo and Stick Man. Even more reason to buy this!

A charming novelty book full of farmyard fun

By the best-loved illustrator of The Gruffalo

With moving parts to push, pull, turn and slide

Gentle rhyming text and bright, beautiful artwork

Product Details

Catalogue number

542 in EU Primary March 2019

Format

Board Book

ISBN

9781509866946

Publisher

Campbell Books Ltd

Date published

May 3rd, 2018

Other details

10 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Axel Scheffler

Axel Scheffler was born in 1957 in Hamburg, Germany. At school, although always good at art, he never really considered a career in illustration. But long before he began his professional life, he had won his first drawing prize for an international chocolate company – his prize was a cuddly lilac cow.

Axel went on from school to study History of Art at the University of Hamburg – but he didn’t like the course and decided to leave. Knowing that he wanted to live in another country and learn a second language, he moved to England to study illustration at the Bath Academy of Art.

After graduating with a first class degree, Axel moved to London where he began illustrating for a variety of English and German advertising companies, magazines and newspapers. He took his portfolio to a number of publishers and Faber commissioned him to illustrate The Piemakers by Helen Cresswell and The Bottle Rabbit by Bernard McCabe. In 1989, Walker asked Axel to illustrate a text by Jon Blake, You’re a Hero, Daley B.

A writer called Julia Donaldson was also writing songs for Playdays at this time and her song A Squash and a Squeeze was commissioned to be a picture book. Axel Scheffler was recommended as an illustrator for the text and an award-winning team was created.

Their next book, The Gruffalo, was published in March 1999 and has already become a modern classic, selling more than 2 million copies worldwide and translated into over 20 languages. Axel also continues to illustrate for other authors as well, including Ian Whybrow and David Henry Wilson.

Axel has achieved worldwide acclaim for his humorous illustrations, and his books have been translated into over 29 languages. He has enjoyed particular success in his award-winning picture book collaborations with Julia Donaldson, but is also the best-selling illustrator of novelty books such as The Bedtime Bear. In 2006 he was been called upon to design Gordon Brown’s annual Christmas card!

Still living in London, Axel makes frequent visits to continental Europe. His hobbies include walking, cooking and reading and beadwork.