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A Bad King is a Sad Thing: Book 5 (Rabbit and Bear) Kindle Edition
Julian Gough (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Gorgeously illustrated and with a classic feel, this is a brilliantly funny story of a rabbit and a bear ... and how to defeat an icebear who wants to be king. Ideal for readers moving on from picture books.
'A perfect animal double-act.' The Times, Book of the Week
Icebear has arrived in Rabbit and Bear's valley, and he wants to be king. He's big and scary, and the more kind and understanding the animals are, the meaner he becomes.
Rabbit is confused: Bear has always been able to fix their problems in the past - but maybe this time he needs to ask for help from someone else. Does Wolf have the answer to the bad king's demands ... or will Rabbit and the other animals find the solution within themselves?
From novelist and playwright Julian Gough, and the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Jim Field, this is a story of friends, enemies, and how to avoid being pooped on by an icebear.
'Rabbit's Bad Habits is a breath of fresh air in children's fiction, a laugh-out-loud story of rabbit and wolf and bear, of avalanches and snowmen. The sort of story that makes you want to send your children to bed early, so you can read it to them.' Neil Gaiman
Read all the Rabbit and Bear books:
1. Rabbit's Bad Habits
2. The Pest in the Nest
3. Attack of the Snack
4. A Bite in the Night
5. A Bad King is a Sad Thing
- Reading age5 - 7 years
- Print length112 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHodder Children's Books
- Publication date19 August 2021
- ISBN-13978-1444937473
- Kindle Paperwhite
- Kindle Paperwhite (5th Generation)
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About the Author
Jim Field is a lead-driven, pencil-pushing, 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan. He is also a hugely talented award-winning illustrator, character designer and animation director. He has worked on a variety of projects, from music videos and title sequences to advertising and books.His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway award. He has since illustrated a string of bestselling, multi-award-winning children's books, including Oi Frog! and The Lion Inside, as well as young fiction series Rabbit and Bear, middlegrade novels by David Baddiel and his debut author-illustrator picture book Monsieur Roscoe - On Holiday, a bilingual book that introduces first French words. He grew up in Farnborough, worked in London and now lives in Paris with his wife and young daughter. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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- ASIN : B08FBZNBB9
- Publisher : Hodder Children's Books (19 August 2021)
- Language : English
- File size : 60031 KB
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- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 112 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 661,416 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 86 in Children's Rabbit Books
- 107 in Children's Bear Books
- 635 in Children's Books on Rabbits
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About the authors
Jim Field is an illustrator, character designer and animation director.
From music videos and title sequences to illustration and picture books, Jim has worked on a variety of projects.
Jim has won multiple awards for the children's books he has illustrated; including the Lollies, The Roald Dahl Funny Prize, The Evening Standards Oscars Prize and The Sainsbury's Award.
He was the 5th bestselling children's book illustrator of 2018.
Jim has illustrated children's books with Kes Gray, Rachel Bright, Julian Gough, Michelle Robinson, Michael Broad, Jeanne Willis, Steve Cole, comedian David Baddiel and Sir Michael Morpurgo.
Jim now lives in Paris with his wife, daughter and a small grumpy cat.
Awards
Oi Frog! written by Kes Gray and published by Hodder Children's Books
Winner of the Bishops Stortford Picture book Award
Nominated for the Kate Greenway 2015
Shortlisted for Peter's Picture book of the year 2015
Winner Portsmouth Children's book Award 2016
Nielsen Silver Award 2019
Oi Dog! written by Kes & Claire Gray and published by Hodder children's Books
WINNER OF THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION 4-7 FICTION PICTURE BOOK AWARD 2017
WINNER OF THE FCBG YOUNGER CHILDREN'S CATEGORY 2017
WINNER OF THE LOLLIES PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2017
The Lion Inside written by Rachel Bright and published by Orchard Books
WINNER OF THE UKLA BOOK AWARD 2017
Shortlisted for The Evening Standard Oscar's Book Prize 2016
Longlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Prize 2017
The Koala Who Could written by Rachel Bright and published by Orchard Books
Winner of Evening Standard Oscars award 2017
The Parent Agency written by David Baddiel and published by HarperCollins
Winner of the Lollies 2016 Children's 9 - 12 yr old category
There's a Lion in My Cornflakes written by Michelle Robinson and published by Bloomsbury
Winner of the first Sainsbury's Children's Book Award 2014
Cats Ahoy! written by Peter Bently and published by Macmillan
Winner of The Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011
Nominated for the Kate Greenaway 2012
Julian Gough is the author of the acclaimed new novel, Connect. But wait! You are, no doubt, rightly wary of such empty boasts; so let us see some examples of actual acclaim:
“Read Connect, by the absurdly brilliant Julian Gough, a mind-expanding technothriller with a hotly beating human heart.” Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of Room
"Propulsively paced and ingeniously twisting. Gough has written a hyperactive, adrenaline-junkie dystopian thriller that deserves to be made into a belter of a film franchise." – The Times
"A dazzling technothriller" – The Guardian
There you go. Connect is, indeed, acclaimed...
Julian was born in London, raised in Tipperary, in rural Ireland, and educated in Galway on Ireland's Atlantic coast. (In answer to your most frequently asked question: Gough rhymes with cough.) He is also the author of three previous novels, two BBC radio plays, a successful stage play, and the ending to Time Magazine’s 2011 computer game of the year, Minecraft, which has sold over 140 million copies.
His most charming novel is Juno & Juliet. His funniest, oddest (and most prize-winning) novel is Jude in Ireland (originally known as Jude: Level 1). It concerns a young Irish orphan's search for true love. His most thrilling novel is Connect.
2016 saw the publication of his first children's book, Rabbit's Bad Habits, which Neil Gaiman called "a laugh-out-loud story", and Eoin Colfer called "an instant modern classic". The award-winning artist Jim Field provided the marvellous pictures. Two more Rabbit & Bear books, also illustrated by Jim Field, have followed. Translated into over twenty languages, they have been shortlisted for many awards in the UK and Ireland, including two Irish Book of the Year awards. In 2018, Rabbit & Bear: The Pest in the Nest won France's Prix Livrentête: a prize voted for by thousands of children across the country.
He won the largest prize in the world for a single short story (the BBC National Short Story Award) in 2007, and was shortlisted for the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize in 2008, and again in 2011, for his linked novels Jude in Ireland, and Jude in London. His poetry collection, Free Sex Chocolate, was published in 2010.
In 2013, he had a UK number one Kindle Single with the comic novella CRASH!
In his youth, Gough sang with underground literary pop band Toasted Heretic. They released four albums, and had a top ten hit with the single "Galway and Los Angeles", a song about not kissing Sinead O'Connor.
He now lives in Berlin. Feel free to say hello to him on Twitter, or through his website.
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