Poppy and Sam's Farm Animals Magic Painting Book
By (Author) Sam Taplin
Illustrated by Jenny Brown
Illustrated by Krysia Ellis
Illustrated by Stephen Cartwright
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Usborne Publishing Ltd
22nd May 2020
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Farm animals
Paperback
32
Width 216mm, Height 249mm, Spine 5mm
160g
Brush water over the black and white illustrations and watch as the animals of Apple Tree Farm burst into colour! Sixteen detailed pictures include Poppy and Sam feeding the chickens, pigs playing in a pigsty, cows sleeping under a starry sky and lots more. With a handy fold-out back cover to prevent colours running through to the page beneath.
Sam Taplin grew up in a beautiful valley in Yorkshire, where he dreamed of being a writer, and after three years reading other people's books at university he started writing his own for Usborne. He's been doing it ever since. When he's not writing about lonely rabbits or inquisitive bears, he likes doing card tricks, writing songs and playing long games of chess by the fire. Jenny Brown earned a graduate degree in 19th-century history. Her very first professional sale as a writer was a biographical piece about Louisa May Alcott's childhood. Years later, her favorite hobby continues to be reading biographies of people who lived in the 18th and 19th centuries. She has earned her living in many different ways: performing as a singer-songwriter in Western Massachusetts and Nashville, writing nonfiction, and, for the past fifteen years, running a successful small press. Jenny has been a student of astrology since her teens. This ancient art helps her make sense of her life and accept that the way she is, with all her oddities, is the way she's supposed to be. Though she has always loved reading love stories set in the past, what got her writing them was finding, at last, the Hero of Her Own Romance.