You Can't Take An Elephant On the Bus (You Can’t Let an Elephant...) - Softcover

Cleveland-Peck, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408849828 ISBN 13: 9781408849828

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2015

Synopsis

''You will laugh out loud'' - Guardian
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Now celebrating 10 years of sensational silliness, this timeless bestseller is full of crazy, clever and chaotic fun. Follow an ensemble of animals as they attempt to ride all sorts of thoroughly unsuitable vehicles in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind rhyming text.

You can’t take an elephant on the bus …
It would simply cause a terrible fuss!
Elephants'' bottoms are heavy and fat
and would certainly squash the seats quite flat.

Never put a camel in a sailing boat, or a tiger on a train, and don''t even THINK about asking a whale to ride a bike … This riotous picture book is filled with animals causing total disaster as they try to travel in the most unsuitable vehicles. With hilarious rhyming text and spectacular illustrations, this is a real romp of a book – perfect for reading aloud!
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Don''t miss out on the other hilarious books in this series:
You Can''t Let an Elephant Drive a Digger
You Can''t Call an Elephant in an Emergency
You Can''t Take an Elephant on Holiday
You Can''t Let an Elephant Drive a Racing Car
You Can''t Let an Elephant Pull Santa''s Sleigh
Collect them all!

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Cleveland-Peck lived in France and Ireland before settling in rural Sussex. She has published fourteen children's books and has also written adult books and plays. She now works as a travel journalist but with a young granddaughter has returned to the world of children's books with You Can't Take an Elephant on a Bus, her first book for Bloomsbury. David Tazzyman is the bestselling illustrator of the Mr Gum books (Egmont) which have won a multitude of awards, including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. David grew up in Leicester, and studied illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University. You Can't Take an Elephant on a Bus is his first picture book for Bloomsbury. He lives in south London with his partner and their three children.

Review

`... delightfully brought to life with David Tazzyman's quirky illustrations and a jaunty rhyming text. You will laugh out loud as tigers ride on trains, whales ride on bikes and giraffes go on aeroplanes' * Publishers Association * The bold, caricature style illustrations, rhyming couplets, and varying font styles add to the humour * Practical Pre-School * Everything that you could wish for in a picture book, humour, ridiculous situations and imagination stimulating scenarios. Quite frankly, this is picture book writing and illustration at its very best * Being a Mummy * David Tazzyman's scratchy style is a great match to this scatty surprising picture book' * Books for Keeps * Chaotic, crazy, fabulously funny and full of humorously energetic illustrations, this is a book that promises to evoke giggles of glee from readers fortunate enough to come across it * Eye, Eye *

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408849828
• ISBN 13: 9781408849828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32