The Giant Baby
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This month BfK features Jane Ray’s cover for The Twelve Dancing Princesses. We’re particularly delighted to have the opportunity to use this illustration as it enables us to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Orchard Books - they’re 10 this year! And also to thank them for their help in producing our July cover.
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The Giant Baby
Illustrated by Fritz Wegner
The Giant Baby is deposited on Alice's doorstep one night and stays in our small world until many nights and adventures later 'a giant eye showed itself at the skylight, a giant handbag was set down in the garden and the roof on the house (like the lid of a teapot) Judder! Creak! Crash! was lifted off ...' and Mama and Giant Baby 'moved off into the night'. Humour, huge attention to the practical and emotional implications, an instinctive interest in any abandoned baby, plus Ahlberg's personal writing style make this absolutely riveting. Even the small print on the 150-plus pages won't deter.
