Ten Green Bottoms
By (Author) Barry Timms
Illustrated by Mike Byrne
Pan Macmillan
Macmillan Children's Books
9th April 2024
28th March 2024
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Early years: numbers and counting
Early years: verse, rhymes and wordplay
Early years: colours
Paperback
32
Width 249mm, Height 252mm, Spine 4mm
214g
Count down from ten with the cheeky aliens and do your 'sums with bums' in Ten Green Bottoms - a hilarious storybook for preschoolers, which is a twist on the classic nursery rhyme Ten Green Bottles. Join the green-bottomed aliens and their 'wind-powered' rocket as they cause all kinds of mischief on Earth. Packed full of silly humour and with lots to spot in busy scenes, this riotous rhyming story by Barry Timms and Mike Byrne is perfect for reading aloud and sharing. With a surprise gatefold ending, a number line to count up to ten and back down again plus a page of simple adding up, first maths skills have never been so much fun!
Barry Timms is an award-winning author who can often be found with pencil in hand, writing or drawing or both. Most exciting of all is putting words and images together, and the surprising results that can happen. Mike Byrne grew up on the Wirral near Liverpool before moving to Wales to study Illustration at Glyndwr University. He began his career as a designer for a greetings card company and then became a studio manager for a licensed stationery designer before leaving to fulfil his dream of illustrating children's books.