Pamela Allen is een gevierde kinderboekenschrijfster en illustratrice. Haar werken staan bekend om hun speelse benadering en nadruk op visueel vertellen. Via haar boeken verkent Allen thema's als vriendschap, familie en ontdekking. Haar boeiende verhalen en levendige illustraties hebben de harten van lezers wereldwijd veroverd, waardoor ze een gerespecteerde stem in kinderliteratuur is geworden.
Mr McGee when out to play, down to the beach one windy day... When along comes a jumping, biting flea. 'OOOO! OWWW! EEEEE! cries Mr McGee. Told in Pamela Allen's famously irresistible rhyme, she portrays the hilarious sequence of events as Mr McGee tries to rid himself of the biting flea, one article of clothing at a time!
'Have you seen my grandmother?' asked the little boy. 'There are only goannas here,' replied the station master. 'Is your grandmother a goanna?' One day a little boy sets out to visit his grandmother. But each station he comes to is full of a different sort of animal, and his grandmother is not a gorilla, or an elephant, or a walrus - or a goanna!
A picture book in which Wendy and Oliver decide to have a picnic in the woods, but they get more than they bargained for when they are approached by a ferocious black and growling bear.
'Stay close, take care,' quacked Alexander's mother. But Alexander was a wayward duckling - he straggled behind ... and disappeared down a deep dark hole ...
Andrew has no one to play with until a ginger cat arrives at his house and he learns how to be friends. Suggested level: junior