LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
Don’t miss this delightful comedy about penguin travellers and an unexpected friendship. As everyone knows, penguins are always at the South Pole, never the North Pole. Out for a picnic though, the Pilchard-Browns take a wrong turn and end up 12,340 miles away from home. An easy mistake to make says Mr Pilchard-Brown, who was in charge of the map. Fortunately, Mr White a polar bear offers to guide them back, and what an adventure they have together journeying across continents. Jeanne Willis has an enormous gift for comedy and her penguin family are brilliant and original comic creations, happy travellers fully embracing local customs. Illustrator Jarvis gives them an insouciant charm and they are equally at home water-skiing in Sydney harbour and sight-seeing in New York. Gorgeous! ~ Andrea Reece
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Poles Apart Synopsis
Celebrating 10 years of Poles Apart, a funny story of friendship and adventure from award-winning creative talents Jeanne Willis and Jarvis!
The Pilchard-Brown family wanted a picnic but - oh dear - now they are now lost in the North Pole. Everyone knows penguins belong in the South Pole! They will need the help of a friendly polar bear to guide them home. But will they ever have their picnic?
A charming tale of big adventures, new friends and following your dreams!
Praise for Poles Apart:
"It's just right for reading together on a winter's evening" - the Scotsman
"A funny and charming tale" - Huffington Post
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781805137474 |
| Publication date: |
11th September 2025 |
| Author: |
Jeanne Willis |
| Illustrator: |
Jarvis |
| Publisher: |
Nosy Crow an imprint of Nosy Crow Ltd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
32 pages |
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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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