A heart-warming rhyming story about making friends and working together from the Number One bestselling Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, and Catherine Rayner, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration. The Go-Away bird just wants to be left alone. One by one, the other birds fly into her tree, wanting to talk or to play, and she sends them all away. But when the bullying Get-You bird comes along, she soon realises that sometimes everyone needs the help of their friends! A beautifully illustrated book with a wonderful rhyming story about the power of friendship and teamwork, The Go-Away Bird is perfect for reading together.…mehr
A heart-warming rhyming story about making friends and working together from the Number One bestselling Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, and Catherine Rayner, winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration. The Go-Away bird just wants to be left alone. One by one, the other birds fly into her tree, wanting to talk or to play, and she sends them all away. But when the bullying Get-You bird comes along, she soon realises that sometimes everyone needs the help of their friends! A beautifully illustrated book with a wonderful rhyming story about the power of friendship and teamwork, The Go-Away Bird is perfect for reading together.
Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 18 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages. Her other books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Hospital Dog, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle series, illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs - and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was the UK Children's Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia divides her time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.