Tad

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Sometimes the biggest stories come from the smallest beginnings
Winner of the 2020 Oscars Book Prize!
Meet Tad.

Shes the smallest tadpole in a big pond, and lives there with all her tadbrothers and tadsisters.

Although something else lives there too BIG BLUB! And when everyone else starts to disappear, Tad starts to wonder if Big Blub will get her too

Or is everyone else going somewhere else; somewhere better And if so, will Tad ever get there too

A big story about a tiny tadpole about growing up, branching out, and taking a leap into life.

Winner of the 2020 Oscars Book Prize and from the award-winning creator of The Storm Whale and Granddads Island, Tad is the perfect story for everyone whos ever grown up, or still has a way to go

Saturated with colour and steeped in the fear and excitement of growing up. The Guardian, Best New Picture Books roundup

An author-illustrator destined to be one of this generations great talents Huffington Post

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Praise for Tad
Saturated with colour and steeped in the fear and excitement of growing up. The Guardian, Best New Picture Books roundup

Praise for Benji Davies
Benji Davies (The Storm Whale and Grandads Island) is fast establishing himself as a leading light in childrens picture books Huffington Post

An author-illustrator destined to be one of this generations great talents Huffington Post

Praise for THE STORM WHALE
Like the best picture books, The Storm Whale has an outsize emotional force that often comes from what the author-illustrator Benji Davies leaves out New York Times

Praise for THE STORM WHALE IN WINTER
Intensely atmospheric, full of biting cold, tender detail and warm light, this is a book to cuddle up with The Guardian

Praise for GRANDADS ISLAND
A gently magical story about bidding farewell to a grandparent, Davies vibrant palette infuses the story with a hopeful spirit Huffington Post

Benji Davies didnt invent the melancholy sea story, but he sure knows how to deliver oneGrandads Island metaphorically and movingly re-imagines the experience of loss Boston Globe

Author Bio

Benji Davies was born and raised in Peterborough. After studying animation at university he spread his creative wings, working on a variety of illustration and animation projects. His picture books have won numerous awards, including Oscar's First Book Prize, an AOI World Illustration Prize and the Sainsbury's Children's Book Prize. He lives and works in London with his wife.