Tim Hopgood Press Reviews
Don't leave home without My Big Book of Outdoors by Tim Hopgood, a beautifully illustrated treasury of nature celebrating everything from migrating birds to daisy chains. With a mixture of poetry, facts and things to do, this is the ideal companion for a British summer holiday - wet or dry. - The Daily Telegraph
Tim Hopgood's My Big Book of Outdoors is a blissful immersion in the natural world, full of poetry, seasonally themed activities and engaging facts, with illustrations saturated in vivid colour. This handsome hardback invites children to plant sunflowers, go pond-dipping, and identify butterflies, birds and plants. - The Guardian
The beautifully illustrated My Big Book of Outdoors by Tim Hopgood takes younger children through the seasons with a series of inventive challenges. Make chocolate nests in spring, identify butterflies in summer, make a leaf mobile in autumn, or collect pine cones in winter. - Daily Express, Scottish Daily Express, Daily Mirror and The Irish Daily Mirror
About Tim Hopgood
Tim Hopgood lives with his wife, children and cats in North Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Kingston University and worked for twenty years in graphic design and freelance illustration. Tim’s first book, Our Big Blue Sofa, was published by Macmillan in 2006 and he has gone on to publish a number of successful picture books including Tip Tap went the Crab and WOW said the Owl.
Julia Eccleshare, the editorial expert on Lovereading4kids says, Bubbling with energy, prize winning Tim Hopgood’s illustrations are also full of warmth. The enchanting owl, waking up as night falls, gives a beautiful introduction to colours in Wow! Said the Owl while a chirpy crab with very big eyes tip taps as it counts its way around the seashore in Tip Tap went the Crab. A Dog Called Rod is a wonderful fantasy about owning a dog even though dad says dogs are noisy, messy and expensive! Full of life as the pages shimmer, Here Comes Frankie is also full of noise as Frankie’s life is transformed when he starts to play the trumpet. There’s lots of noise and energy too as the gloriously strokable sofa takes off on an unusual adventure in Our Big Blue Sofa.
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