Written by Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Illustrated by David Tazzyman
ISBN: 9781408849828
What a wonderful, delightful, crazily funny picture book, featuring rhyme, rhythm and plenty of giggles! The narrative tells in which (unsuitable) vehicles you really wouldn’t (or rather shouldn’t) see different animals travel, and the funny verse explains exactly why! A camel in a sailing boat, a tiger on a train, a whale on a bike, simply wouldn’t do! But how would the animals be able to travel, what would they be able to ride?
This riotous picture book is chaotic, crazy, and fabulously funny and has spectacular, humorously energetic illustrations that really capture the zany nature of the text, and it can be used to challenge children’s philosophical thinking.
There are lots of fun, but uniquely British touches, to this book, that readers from other countries might miss, like the double decker red bus and the Mr. Whippy ice cream truck.
You can download and print your free activity pack for this book from Bloomsbury (PDF).
Patricia Cleveland-Peck – author of You can’t take an elephant on the bus
Patricia Cleveland-Peck is the author of many children’s books as well as adult books and plays. She has visited many countries as a travel journalist, and lived in France and Ireland before settling in rural Sussex, England.
Her children’s books include The String Family, Much Too Much, The Bus From Beyond, Shepherd Boy, and You Can’t Take an Elephant on a Bus – her first book for Bloomsbury.
Photo Credit: Tony Withers
David Tazzyman is the bestselling illustrator of the Mr Gum books (Egmont), which have won a multitude of awards, including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
David grew up in Leicester, England, and studied illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University. You Can’t Take an Elephant on a Bus is also his first picture book for Bloomsbury.
David Tazzyman shows you how to draw Mr Gum step by step!
