Lou Peacock ist eine Autorin mit fast zwanzig Jahren Erfahrung im Kinderbuchverlag, die sich auf die Welt der Bilderbücher konzentriert. Ihre Rolle bei Nosy Crow offenbart ein tiefes Verständnis für das Genre. Peacock setzt oft ihren Autoren-Hut auf und bringt ein Notizbuch voller skizzierter Ideen zum Leben. Ihre Expertise liegt im Schaffen fesselnder Erzählungen für junge Leser.
Mr. Brown, ein sehr wichtiger Tiger, arbeitet in einem wichtigen Büro und hat immer seinen Aktenkoffer dabei. Als der Koffer verloren geht, beginnt eine wilde Verfolgungsjagd mit vielen lustigen und anstrengenden Abenteuern, bis er ihn schließlich zurückbekommt und müde nach Hause gehen kann.
Wo ist Oliver? Was gibt es nicht alles zu erledigen beim großen Weihnachtseinkauf: Mama muss noch Geschenke für Tante Klara, die kleine Emma, Großonkel Jochen und noch viel mehr Dinge besorgen. Mit dabei sind die kleine Marie, Noah und natürlich Noahs Lieblingskuscheltier Oliver Elefant. Puh, ist Mama froh, als endlich alle Geschäfte abgeklappert und sämtliche Geschenke besorgt sind. »Oh nein!«, ruft Noah da, denn Oliver Elefant ist weg! Da hilft alles nichts, die drei machen sich auf die große Suche. Überall, wo sie heute gewesen sind, sehen sie nach. Doch Oliver Elefant ist nirgends zu entdecken! Doch was ist das? Hat sich da etwa noch ein Mitfahrer in Maries Kinderwagen versteckt? Ohne Lieblingskuscheltier ist Weihnachten nicht Weihnachten
A brilliantly illustrated collection of 366 hilarious poems to keep you laughing all year round!From rib-ticklingly funny to wryly witty, each poem in this uplifting collection is guaranteed to put a smile on your face and is perfect for reading aloud to share even more side-splitting hilarity with family and friends.
A fun and festive Christmas fairy-tale adventure. It's Christmas Eve and Father Christmas has fallen asleep at the Three Bears' cottage but NOTHING will wake him. all before the children wake up on Christmas morning?The perfect picture book to share with children from 3+ at Christmas!
The sky is blue, the sun is shining, and Margot has made a delicious cake for her best friend Oscar! But by the time she reaches Oscar's house after having helped all her friends along the way, will there be ANY cake left to share?A story about empathy which shows that kindness and cake is always the best recipe for friendship.
Robert Norris. An eighteen-year-old petty criminal is brutally tortured and left in a farmer's field to die. DCI Jack Lambert and his team think they have it all figured out. It's a robbery gone wrong. Suspicion immediately falls on the man who called it in. What Jack doesn't realise is that this is just the beginning. An escaped prisoner, an attempted hit, and a seemingly unending trail of violence and retribution follows. As the mystery unfolds, Jack begins to suspect the existence of a secret, but powerful, syndicate operating on the very edges of the North East's criminal underworld. With the situation spiralling out of control, Jack finds himself at a crossroads--one which could lead him back into the kind of life he has spent a career running away from. Time is running out and this case might not only cost Lambert his job, but also his life...
Meet a riot of cheeky dinosaurs in this adorable story about friendship. When a dinosaur comes to play, you're sure to have lots of fun. But wouldn't 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . or even 10 dinosaurs be better still? Perhaps one very special dinosaur is just perfect!
Is murder in her DNA?My mother lied to me. My family is not my own. If it wasn’t for the genealogy test, I would never have known I was the child of another woman.Now I’m learning that I have four brothers I have never met. And one of them is a serial killer. My brother is taunting me to play his vicious game – solving his clues before he spills more blood.Who can I trust? How can I find and stop him before it is too late? And what if it is me he really wants?A read-in-one-sitting, utterly nail-biting thriller that you will not be able to put down...Fans of Chris Carter and M.W. Craven will love this.
Charlie does NOT like to choose. He can't make up his mind between chocolate or vanilla ice cream, stripy or spotty underpants . . . The trickiest thing of all to choose is a birthday present - how will he ever make up his mind? But when a new friend with a waggy tail chooses HIM, making choices gets a little easier.
Mr Brown is a Very Important Tiger who works in a Very Important Office. He carries a Very Important Briefcase and does Very Important Things all day long. But when his Very Important Briefcase goes missing, Mr Brown's world is turned upside down. And what about the Very Important Things inside?