The Large Family Collection - Hardcover

Jill Murphy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0744532604 ISBN 13: 9780744532609

Publisher: Walker Books, 2000

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About this title

About the Author:

Jill Murphy is one of Britain's most treasured author-illustrators, who wrote and illustrated her first book, the bestselling The Worst Witch, while still only eighteen. She then went on to create the award-winning Large Family series - a series which has sold over five million copies worldwide, been adapted for television and includes the Kate Greenaway commended All in One Piece and the shortlisted A Quiet Night In. Jill's other characters include a small monster called Marlon who appeared in the acclaimed picture books The Last Noo-noo and All For One, and a bunny called Ruby, who stars in Meltdown! Jill lives in Cornwall. Find Jill online at www.jillmurphy.moonfruit.com.

From Publishers Weekly:

"Exhausted parents everywhere," to whom Murphy dedicates this work, will be as tickled as their young ones by her jovial story, the fourth book featuring the Large family--those precocious, precious pachyderms who made their debut in Five Minutes' Peace . "It's Daddy's birthday, and we're going to have a quiet night in," Mrs. Large informs her four children. Resigned to the fact that they are expected to go to bed early to ensure their parents a tranquil evening, the young elephants, markers and paintbrushes in trunk, make decorations for the dinner table. But, alas, Mrs. Large's romantic repast never materializes. Mr. Large comes home from work very weary, and falls asleep while reading the kids a bedtime story. And guess who does the same when she takes over? After covering their dozing parents with a blanket, the children, resolving that it would be a pity to waste the birthday meal, carry it upstairs for a bedtime snack, spilling merrily as they go. Brimming with droll particulars, Murphy's colored-pencil renditions of the family's antics are as spirited as ever--and are an ideal match for her cleverly understated text. Ages 3-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0744532604
• ISBN 13: 9780744532609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Jill Murphy