Little Big Mouth

Description

Mix and match the monsters! It's Blue Monster's first day at Monster Academy and Little Green Monster thinks it's really funny to call him rude names. Fat face! Jelly belly! Spotty botty! So how come no one else is laughing? Little Green Monster soon learns why when he finds out that the new student is actually the new teacher! Children will learn an important lesson as to why you shouldn't call names, as well as having fun mixing and matching the monster body parts. It is a humorous novelty picture book dealing subtly with the issue of bullying. It is ideal for reading aloud, the split-page, mix-and-match format makes this hilarious storybook different every time.

Reviews

"With ingenious use of split pages, children will love the funny assortment of insults and images they can conjure up. And there's a useful lesson on why it's not nice - or prudent - to be rude." (Junior)"

Author description

Jeanne Willis has had a successful career working in advertising and as an author, writing over eighty picture books, poetry books, television scripts and novels for children. Her teenage novel Naked Without a Hat was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award and Dumb Creatures was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her other novels include the Goffins series, Shamanka (9781406350821) and Grandad and John (9781844288984); and her picture books include Wild Child (9781406323085), Mummy, Do You Love Me? (9780744570847) and Never Too Little to Love (9780744596502). She lives in north London, N14. Lydia Monks is the acclaimed illustrator of the Smarties Book Prize-winning I Wish I Were a Dog, as well as the Indie Kidd series by Karen McCombie. She lives in Sheffield.