Don't Wake the Baby!
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This issue’s cover is from Jane Hissey’s Old Bear’s All-Together Painting. Jane Hissey writes about her approach to illustration in this issue's Windows into Illustration. Thanks to Hutchinson Children’s Books for their help with this July cover.
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Don't Wake the Baby!
Big, bold illustrations introduce Baby Squirrel and Lily-Lu. Very young children will savour the repeated language as Lily-Lu mischievously plays a variety of QUIET games around the sleeping baby. As the text gently builds up each fresh scene, the illustrations shows us disasters about to happen. We turn each page, having made our predictions, and, ... uh oh! Wheeeee! [Or Crash! Thud! Splash! Whoosh!] Shhhhh, Lily-Lu, don't wake the Baby!' Five different scenes unfold whilst Baby miraculously sleeps on, and there is a humorous twist in the end. A book that could be a noisy favourite throughout toddler-hood and beyond.
