This little witch is riding on her broom. Wiggle wiggle, zoom-zoom!This little wolf sings a song to the Moon. Wiggle wiggle, ahhwwoooo!
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Enjoy and encourage imaginative Halloween play with your baby in this spooktacular finger wiggle book!
Poke your fingers through the holes of this lighthearted Halloween board book to make wiggly legs for your favourite cast of creepy characters in spooky season! From the witch on her broom to the wolf howling at the moon, from the bat that's hanging upside down to the pumpkin that's round, share the joy of reading together with your baby. Bright, high contrast illustrations and finger holes to explore, make this book the perfect start to a lifelong love of books.
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This delightful little board book for Halloween will appeal to all pre-school children.
This colourful book is beautifully illustrated by Nick Sharratt. Each page features a different halloween related character e.g. a witch, a wolf, a spider, a ghost, a pumpkin, a bat, a black cat and a friendly looking vampire. Each one provides the opportunity to wiggle fingers through, making it a wonderfully interactive book to share with little ones.
I think it is utterly delightful and would make the perfect Halloween gift for babies and very young children.
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ISBN: 978 1529512663
Publisher: Walker Books
Formats: Board Book
No. of Pages: 18
About the Author:
Sally Symes is a freelance children's book author, designer and illustrator with over 25 years experience. Her clients include: Walker Children's Books, What on Earth Publishing, Britannica Books, Nosy Crow, Harper Collins and Frances Lincoln.
She has written and designed over 50 books for children and her collaborations with Nick Sharratt have won many awards including The Educational Writers’ Award for The Gooey, Chewy Rumble Plop Book and The Southampton Favourite Book to Share Award for Something Beginning With Blue. One of our Finger Wiggle Series, Look at Me was recently chosen to be part of BookTrust's BookStart packs. (Bookstart gives a free book pack to every baby born in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.)
She worked for many years as a designer of children’s books before turning her skills to writing them too. She was Senior Editor at Campbell Children’s Books (Pan Macmillan) for many years and has an excellent understanding of the children’s publishing market. She writes fiction and non-fiction for ages 0-10 years.
She lives in a lively village in West Sussex and loves running, swimming, cycling and singing with her local choir. She works from a shed at the bottom of her garden accompanied by her grumpy cat, Bumble.
Nick was born on August 9th, 1962 in Bexleyheath, Greater London. He grew up in Suffolk, Nottinghamshire and Greater Manchester.
When he left school he went on an art foundation course at Manchester Polytechnic ( now called Manchester Metropolitan University ) where he spent a very happy year learning to draw people and places from real life.
He then got a place at St Martin's School of Art (now Central St Martins) in London to study graphic design for three years.
The first books he drew pictures for were educational textbooks and after a couple of years he was asked to illustrate his first picture book Noisy Poems which was published in 1987.
He gradually did more and more book illustration and began writing his own books too but it wasn't until the mid 1990s that he decided to stop the other kinds of illustration and concentrate solely on children's books.
He has now illustrated close to 300 books. They range from board books for babies to novels for young teenagers. He has worked with authors including Julia Donaldson, Jeremy Strong, Michael Rosen, Giles Andreae, Kaye Umansky, Kes Gray and most notably Dame Jacqueline Wilson and he's also written around 40 of his own books. He is delighted that quite a few of the books have won prizes. He was the official illustrator for World Book Day in 2006 and has a fellowship from Hereford College of Art. He is also a proud recipient of a gold Blue Peter badge.
(book courtesy of the publisher)
(all opinions are my own)
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