Beware of the Storybook Wolves - Hardcover

Child, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340911573 ISBN 13: 9780340911570

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books, 2006

Synopsis

For a thrill try reading Beware of the Storybook Wolves. It will tell you excatly what to do if the wolves ever escape from your storybook! A wickedly funny book with ingenious mechanisms on every page.

About this title

Review:

There's nothing Herb likes better just before bed than a good, scary wolf story, the scarier and hairier the better. But each night he says to his mom, "Don't forget to take that book with you!" Herb's mother thinks that storybook wolves are not at all dangerous, but Herb doesn't want to take any chances. And then one night the unthinkable happens. One of the wolf books is accidentally left behind. And now two wolves have emerged from the storybook, hungry for a meal of little boy. Can Herb outwit the wily wolves? And what about the cantankerous witch who sneaks out of another book while Herb's not looking? With a bit of borrowed Jell-O and the help of a few other fairy-tale characters shaken out of the books by a desperate Herb, he just might make it.

Lauren Child, brilliant creator of Clarice Bean, That's Me and I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato, taps into shadowy childhood fears--and vanquishes them with wit and imagination. Her clever collages use rough-cut paper and fabric patterns to fabulous effect. (Ages 6 to 10) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

Lauren Child attended art schools in both Manchester and London. She is now a children's writer and illustrator, an artist's assistant and also works for a design consultancy. Lauren was awarded the Greenaway Medal in 2001 for Clarice Bean That's Me and won the Bronze Smarties Award for Beware of the Storybook Wolves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0340911573
• ISBN 13: 9780340911570
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24