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Best-selling author/illustrator Lydia Monks has a gift for entertaining and dramatic picture books. Babbit, a lovely Blue Rabbit, is happily enjoying a picnic when it is captured by the Witchy One and tied to a tree ready for being chopped into pieces and popped in the cauldron! Will Big and Little One be able to rescue him in time? A great adventure with a perfect tingle of excitement.
Meet Babbit, a garrulous toy bunny who has a startling adventure - that he can't stop rabbiting on about! Picnics, piggy-in-the-middle and evading capture by monsters are all in a day's work for this talkative carrot-lover. But how will his flipperty-floppity day end? This is a stunning new direction for internationally acclaimed illustrator, Lydia Monks.
'Fanciful, quirky illustrations are sheer delight, making this a unique and totally covetable book that sits at the very top of the everyday book pile and smacks of exceptional. Love it.' Kids Book Review
'Babbit is a great picture book for preschoolers - it is a great little adventure, with a familiar setting and characters and will be reminiscent of many of their playtimes. Supported by some great artwork, this is sure to be a hit with little readers.' Library Mice blog
Author
About Lydia Monks
Lydia Monks is one of the most original picture book artists working today. Lydia illustrates several bestselling series including the What the Ladybird Heard adventures and Princess Mirror-Belle, written by Julia Donaldson. Her distinctive use of colour and collage has won her critical acclaim and several awards, including the Royal Mail Scottish Children’s Book Award, the Stockport Children’s Book Award and multiple nominations for the Kate Greenaway Medal. She is also the author and illustrator of the preschool picture book series Twit Twoo School. Lydia lives in Sheffield.
Photo credit - Rob King
Things you didn't know about Lydia Monks:
1. She has ginger hair. 2. She goes to tango classes. 3. She has a sister called Julie who also illustrates children’s books. 4. She doesn’t have any pets but would like some. 5. She always talks to cats in the street. 6. She listens to the radio all day while she works. 7. She has won medals and trophies for Irish dancing. 8. She used to have an old, green car that was born in the 1970s, which people used to laugh at. 9. She uses teeny, weeny brushes to work with. 10. She has a husband who is also an illustrator.
Click here to read a Q&A with the author from top children's publisher Egmont.
