LoveReading4Kids Says
I'm in Charge! delivers a useful life lesson with humour and style. He may be only little, but this baby rhino knows just how to throw his weight around, bossing all the other animals in ways that may be horribly familiar to parents of toddlers. It takes a stampede of beefy wildebeest to teach him that he’s not really in charge. The story is told with typical wit and insight by the incomparable Jeanne Willis in a rhyming text that is sheer pleasure to read aloud, while Jarvis creates glorious scenes depicting little rhino’s encounters with his fellow wild animals in the glowing, richly saturated colours of his illustrations. ~ Andrea Reece
The Editor at Nosy Crow says “A laugh-out-loud book about a catastrophically cantankerous toddler rhino – what’s not to love? It may be set in the savannah, but this is brilliantly-observed preschool behaviour.”
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I'm in Charge! Synopsis
This romping rhyming story from award-winning author Jeanne Willis is all about a little rhino who likes to make the rules! When Rhino finds a tree bursting with fruit, he isn't about to share it with anyone - after all, he's in charge round here! But it looks like things are about to change...
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780857636447 |
| Publication date: |
12th January 2017 |
| Author: |
Jeanne Willis |
| Illustrator: |
Peter Jarvis |
| Publisher: |
Nosy Crow Ltd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
32 pages |
| Suitable For: |
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About Jeanne Willis
Jeanne Willis is an award-winning children's author and scriptwriter. She wrote her first book when she was five - a slim volume about cats written in pencil and stitched together with a painfully blunt needle so that it looked like a 'real' book. After that, there was no turning back. Having been fired from her Saturday job - selling cowboy boots on the Kings Road - for chewing gum, and after a brief career as a reptile vet's assistant, she worked as a copywriter and had her first picture book published at the age of 21 (which she wrote whilst pretending to be busy creating adverts for cognac).
She has since written over 300 books and has won several awards, which are arranged in the attic where she works, along with her collection of caterpillars, pink-toed tarantula skins and live locusts. Jeanne has a keen interest in Natural History and has lost count of the number of species featured in her books, including everything from slugs to sloths. She is currently into corvids - especially Nosy Crows.
Jeanne has won the Silver Medal Smarties Prize for Tadpole's Promise, the Nasen Special Needs Award for Susan Laughs, the Sheffield Children's Book Award for Who’s in The Loo and the Red House Children's Book Award for Bottoms Up. Jeanne has also worked on scripts for TV, including Polly Pocket and The Slow Norris, and a pilot TV series for Dr Xargle.
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