THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR - EARLY CHILDHOOD

'Laughs and interactive play will ensue among readers and listeners.' Booklist 'Perfectly attuned to a toddler's sense of playful discovery.' Horn Book Guide 'Just right for toddlers experiencing the basics of life and budding readers learning to complete their sentences by looking at words and pictures together.' Kirkus Reviews 'Oh what a beaut it is! . . . Cunningly worked rhyming words make it a delight to read aloud, sharing with a very young reader who will want to return again and again to the story . . . Brilliant.' Books for Keeps

Mem Fox has written more than 40 books for children, including the bestselling and much-loved picture books Possum Magic and Where is the Green Sheep? Other books by Mem include Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Hunwick's Egg, Hello Baby!, A Giraffe in the Bath, Koala Lou, Baby Bedtime and Roly Poly. In 2019, The Tiny Star was released to great critical acclaim from the Australian Book Industry, and March 2021 saw the release of another new picture book, Early One Morning. Mem has been presented with an array of book awards, and was awarded an AM for services to the cultural life of Australia in 1993. Mem lives in Adelaide and is a retired Associate Professor of Literacy Studies from Flinders University, South Australia. Judy Horacek is an Australian cartoonist, writer and illustrator. She has been drawing cartoons for many years and has worked for a multitude of community groups, unions, small magazines and good causes. Her work is often concerned with feminism, the environment and social justice issues. Six collections of her cartoons have been published- Life on the Edge Unrequited Love, Woman with Altitude, Lost in Space and If the fruit fits. Major retrospective exhibitions of her work have been held at the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. She has also had numerous solo and group exhibitions of her cartoons and her prints.