LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Best-selling picture book author/ illustrator duo capture the pitfalls of presents and the joy of them too! Boa’s really looking forward to his birthday and especially to all the presents his friends will bring. But every gift turns out to be completely wrong! Orang-utan brings him a piano but Boa has no fingers! Monkey brings him a pair of sunglasses but Boa has no ears or nose so they keep slipping off. Just when Boa is despairing of getting a single present he likes he gets an amazing surprise. ~ Julia Eccleshare
You can rely on this picture book team for surprises and laughter, whether they’re exploring human failings or some innocuous aspect of everyday life. Here the giving and receiving of presents comes under the Willis Ross spotlight. The animals are bringing birthday presents for Boa but none of them seem to have given any thought at all as to what Boa might actually like. As he unwraps a series of presents totally unsuitable for snakes, including a piano, a hairbrush and a football, his disappointment seems funnier and funnier, until dung beetle tops it all with a present of … you can probably guess. A final clever twist leaves everyone smiling on the last page. ~ Andrea Reece
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Boa's Bad Birthday Synopsis
It was Boa's birthday. It was going to be the best one ever. Or so he hoped. He invited his friends round. They would all bring him wonderful presents. Or would they?
Boa's excitement soon leads to disappointment as he opens his gifts. A piano for a snake - how will he play it..? Boa has to learn to accept his presents with good grace, after all it's the thought that counts!
A hilarious tale to encourage young children to accept presents gracefully, from
the award-winning team of Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
About This Edition
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9781783441563 |
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4th July 2016 |
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Jeanne Willis |
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Tony Ross |
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Andersen Press Ltd |
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Paperback |
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32 pages |
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Press Reviews
Jeanne Willis Press Reviews
'A hilarious way to encourage young children to accept presents gracefully.' -- Vanessa Lewis Booksellers Choice, The Bookseller
'A dream team of writer and illustrator!' The Times
'The understated humour of Jean Willis’ straight-talking text is the perfect counterpart to Ross’ illlustrations. The Willis/Ross partnership just goes from strength to strength' -- Red Reading Hub
'Willis and Ross have created so many books together that their combination of words and pictures is seamless... A delight' -- Daily Mail
'A book that teaches good manners and emotional resilience in a light-hearted way' -- EYE
'Another hit from one of the most popular author/illustrator teams in children's books today' -- The School Librarian
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About Jeanne Willis
Jeanne Willis is an award-winning children's author and scriptwriter. She wrote her first book when she was five - a slim volume about cats written in pencil and stitched together with a painfully blunt needle so that it looked like a 'real' book. After that, there was no turning back. Having been fired from her Saturday job - selling cowboy boots on the Kings Road - for chewing gum, and after a brief career as a reptile vet's assistant, she worked as a copywriter and had her first picture book published at the age of 21 (which she wrote whilst pretending to be busy creating adverts for cognac).
She has since written over 300 books and has won several awards, which are arranged in the attic where she works, along with her collection of caterpillars, pink-toed tarantula skins and live locusts. Jeanne has a keen interest in Natural History and has lost count of the number of species featured in her books, including everything from slugs to sloths. She is currently into corvids - especially Nosy Crows.
Jeanne has won the Silver Medal Smarties Prize for Tadpole's Promise, the Nasen Special Needs Award for Susan Laughs, the Sheffield Children's Book Award for Who’s in The Loo and the Red House Children's Book Award for Bottoms Up. Jeanne has also worked on scripts for TV, including Polly Pocket and The Slow Norris, and a pilot TV series for Dr Xargle.
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