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Barbara Throws a Wobbler

By Nadia Shireen
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A board book edition of this bestselling laugh-out-loud picture book. "Shireen's latest gem ought to come on prescription" The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2021. Barbara Throws a Wobbler follows Barbara as she experiences one of those days. She has a sock problem and there's a... Read More
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A board book edition of this bestselling laugh-out-loud picture book.

"Shireen's latest gem ought to come on prescription"
The Observer's Best Children's Books of 2021.

Barbara Throws a Wobbler follows Barbara as she experiences one of those days. She has a sock problem and there's a strange pea. Then, all of a sudden, Barbara's Wobbler is out of control!

But what happens when a bad mood like this comes along? Barbara has a lot to learn about the ways of wobblers in this laugh-out-loud story from Nadia Shireen.

A brilliantly funny and sensitive way to understand and deal with tantrums.

"These are the most brilliant, beautiful and silly picture-books out there at the moment. Little doorways of joy."
Caitlin Moran

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241667729

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Board book

Date Published: 16 May 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Puffin

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 163.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 410g

Pages: 32

Collections

Children's Board Books Children's Books Children's Early Years Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Nadia Shireen Penguin Books

About the Author

Nadia Shireen enjoyed making homemade magazines and comics as a child. She studied law at university and then worked in magazine journalism; it was during this time that she started to draw again. After a lifetime of doodling in the sidelines, Nadia decided to pay some attention to drawing and in 2007 was accepted onto an MA course in Children's Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Her debut book Good Little Wolf received a mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award and won the UKLA Book Award. Nadia has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. She lives in London.

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