The Big Race
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Big Race
By (Author) David Barrow
Hachette Children's Group
Hodder Children's Books
10th January 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
823.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
32
Width 240mm, Height 299mm, Spine 7mm
234g
Description
*Shortlisted for the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2020 - Children's Book of the Year*
Aardvark is only small and the Big Race is long and hard. But Aardvark is going to join in and give it everything she's got!A heart-warming, stylish and delightfully funny celebration of taking part rather than winning from Sebastian Walker Award winner David Barrow.If you love Julia Donaldson's The Ugly Five, you will love this.The Big Race is packed full of wonderful African animals including an aardvark, crocodile, cheetah, buffalo and African hoopoe. Visit David at davebarrowillustration.co.uk and follow him at @DaveBarrow3.Reviews
Young readers will love the colourful African creatures, including a crocodile, a cheetah, a buffalo and an African hoopoe. A heart-warming, amusing celebration of the importance of taking part rather than winning. * Parents in Touch *
Author Bio
David Barrow has an MA in Children's Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University. He won the prestigious Sebastian Walker Award, for most promising new illustrator, in his final year. His first book, Have You Seen Elephant (Gecko Press), was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. He lives in Northampton.
