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By (author) Cowell Cressida; Illustrated by Layton Neal
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By the bestselling author of the How to Train Your Dragon series comes a reissue of the classic tale of Emily Brown and her old grey rabbit called Stanley.
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Emily Brown, Stanley the bunny and Matilda the elephant are busy going on adventures, but every time they get to a particularly exciting part . . . Ring! Ring! goes the Emergency Telephone and it”s Matilda”s mummy on the end worrying that Matilda isn”t wearing her wellies, or eating properly or almost anything. How can Emily Brown persuade her that sometimes adventures are good?
This brilliant title from this award-winning team is a witty and poignant book about the importance of spending quality time with your children and allowing them to explore the world around them.
”A sensitive and witty handling of fears that has a valuable lesson for adults too. Great fun.” – Daily Mail
Written by Cressida Cowell, the bestselling author of the How to Train Your Dragon series. http://www.cressidacowell.co.uk/
Illustrated by award winning Neal Layton, creator of Stanley”s Stick.
http://www.neallayton.co.uk/
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An absolute cracker of a picture bokk to stretch your imagination
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No.8 in The Hit List – Over protective parenting causes problems in the latest in the delightful Emily Brown series
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[A] delicious fantastical adventure
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This zany story is full of fun as well as being an imaginative exploration of insecure emotional attachment…Quite superb
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Aimed squarely at mums and dads who will be sharing this, the message is delivered in a light-hearted, wryly knowing way, with plenty of colourful, visual adventures for the young reader to enjoy
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A sensitive and witty handling of fears that has a valuable lesson for adults too. Great fun
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This zany story is full of fun as well as being an imaginative exploration of insecure emotional attachment. Layton”s illustrations are perfect foils for the story. Quite superb. *****
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Neal Layton”s artwork is an absolute joy.
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Already firm favourites.. each story has been brilliant.
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The latest in the delightful Emily Brown series.
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Great fun.
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Superb. *****
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Plenty of colourful visual adventures for the younger reader to enjoy.
Biographical note:
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the globally bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series. Her next series, The Wizards of Once, was an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. The Which Way series is her most recent and has already been translated into 15 languages.How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 42 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The Wizards of Once has been translated into 38 languages and also signed by DreamWorks.Cressida was the Waterstones Children”s Laureate (2019-2022). She is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children”s Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children”s Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now” magazine”s 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband,
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