In this psychedelic children’s story, the reader follows six competitive creatures as they claw, charge, and cheat their way to the finish line using custard trampolines, banana diggers, and chocolate submarines to navigate through each animal’s unique terrain. A lone competitor stays truthful, giving a twist to the story’s end. His morality helps convey an important lesson: cheats never prosper. Dream-like illustrations complement imaginative, quirky rhyme. A simple recipe for cheat’s fool, a dessert, follows the text. cc |
| Title: The Weasel Puffin Unicorn Baboon Pig Lobster Race Author: James Thorp Illustrator: Angus Mackinnon Publisher: Digital Leaf Copyright: 2013 Original language: English ISBN: 978-1-909428-02-7 Hardcover pages: 56 Age range: 4-9 Genre: Picture book Author’s residence: England Illustrator’s residence: England Subjects: Animals, England, Racing, Western Europe |
The Weasel Puffin Unicorn Baboon Pig Lobster Race
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In this psychedelic children’s story, the reader follows six competitive creatures as they claw, charge, and cheat their way to the finish line using custard trampolines, banana diggers, and chocolate submarines to navigate through each animal’s unique terrain. A lone competitor stays truthful, giving a twist to the story’s end. His morality helps convey an important lesson: cheats never prosper. Dream-like illustrations complement imaginative, quirky rhyme. A simple recipe for cheat’s fool, a dessert, follows the text. cc