Hair In Funny Places
$19.20
- Paperback
32 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2001
Summary
Girls and boys are always curious and sometimes even alarmed by the behaviour of their bodies as they grow up. Puberty being a particularly unsettling time, Babette Cole has made this the subject of the fifth title in her bestselling series of ‘family dilemmas’. Who else but Babette would have the temerity to tackle this subject in a picture book and the genius to carry it off! In Hair in Funny Places her artwork is without exaggeration some of the best she has ever done: it is brilliant. The text takes the form of a conversation between a small girl and her teddy bear, and is ingenious and funny. It is the behaviour of Mr and Mrs Hormone (wonderfully depicted) which is responsible for and plays havoc with the physical and emotional states of girls and boys throughout puberty. This book is bound to be controversial but Babette has never taken the conventional path and her readers love her for her outrageous approach to little mentioned topics.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099266266 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099266261 |
| Author: | Babette Cole |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Red Fox |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2001 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 3mm x 250mm x 246mm |
| Audience Age: | 7-9 |
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Critics Review
“Babette Cole is as batty, rebellious and strange as her creations… funny, unrestrained and totally unforgettable.” Independent on Sunday
Classic picture book dealing with puberty * Sunday Express *
Babette Cole
Babette Cole was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands. She graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and was the illustrator and author of more than 150 witty, imaginative, irreverent and thought-provoking picture books for children including the bestselling, stereotype-defying Princess Smartypants. She produced animated storyboards for the BBC and illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette adored the countryside and was a keen horse rider and breeder. She spent much of her life in Lincolnshire, before moving to Kent and then westward through Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.
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