It’s Daddy’s birthday, and Mrs Large is planning a quiet night in to celebrate – without any of the children. The little elephants have been told to go to bed early that night! But in the Large household, things never go to plan – and the quiet night in soon turns into a very rollicking, noisy celebration indeed! A beautifully warm and affectionate celebration of family togetherness, from an author-illustrator with a rare gift for capturing the essence of domestic life.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781844285273

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

Date published

June 5th, 2006

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 2.4; Lower years; 0.5 points

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Jill Murphy

Jill Murphy was born in London in 1949. From a very early age she was drawing and writing stories. “My earliest memory (my mum tells me I was two), is sitting on the kitchen floor surrounded by sheets of drawings.” By the age of six she was stapling her own little storybooks together.

Jill went to a strict convent, and left at sixteen to attend both Chelsea and Croydon art schools. At only eighteen she finished her first novel, The Worst Witch, which was based heavily on her own experiences at the convent school. Three big London publishers turned it down so Jill put it in a drawer and went off to work in a children’s home and as a nanny.

When Jill was twenty four, The Worst Witch was finally published, and was an instant best-seller. Jill became a freelance author and illustrator and many more wonderful books followed. Mildred Hubble has gone on to several more adventures, most recently The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star, and even her own TV show. The Large Family stories are Jill’s other best known stories, picture books telling of the domestic chaos of a family of elephants.

She now lives in Cornwall with her son Charlie.