Can I Sit in the Middle?

Susanne Strasser

ISBN 10: 1776575857 / ISBN 13: 9781776575855

Published by Gecko Press, NZ, 2024

About this Item

This read-together board book is a snowballing narrative of animal chaos that culminates in story time under a blanket tent. Everyone's on the sofa to share a book: zebra, cat, child, lion. "Wait!" says zebra, "Stork isn't here yet!" Then cat needs a cushion, hamster's missing, someone's sitting on lion's tail, fish wants to be in the middle . . . . NOW they'll be able to start-won't they? In this fun, humorous story, the familiar chaos of piling onto the sofa with friends builds to a climactic hullabaloo until the happy ending of sharing a book in an ideal reading spot-behind the sofa under the blanket tent. Susanne Strasser's snowballing animal stories that children love are bestsellers in multiple languages. "A standout board book."-Youth Services Book Review.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781776575855

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Can I Sit in the Middle?
• Publisher: Gecko Press, NZ
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1776575857
• ISBN 13: 9781776575855
• Binding: Board Book
• Illustrator: Strasser, Susanne
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 20.4W x 1.3H x 21.4D centimeters 20.4 centimeters width by 1.3 centimeters height by 21.4 centimeters depth
• Weight: 331 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This read-together board book is a snowballing narrative of animal chaos that culminates in story time under a blanket tent.

Everyone's on the sofa to share a book: zebra, cat, child, lion. "Wait!" says zebra, "Stork isn't here yet!" Then cat needs a cushion, hamster's missing, someone's sitting on lion's tail, fish wants to be in the middle . . . . NOW they'll be able to start―won't they?

In this fun, humorous story, the familiar chaos of piling onto the sofa with friends builds to a climactic hullabaloo until the happy ending of sharing a book in an ideal reading spot―behind the sofa under the blanket tent.

Susanne Strasser's snowballing animal stories that children love are bestsellers in multiple languages.

"A standout board book."―Youth Services Book Review

About the Author

Susanne Strasser studied communication design and illustration in Munich and London. She is the author and illustrator of many successful picture books, including this best-selling series of board books about animal friends. She lives with her family in Munich.