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The Big-Time Boogie-Woogie Animal Band
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Join in the counting musical fun with this brand-new picture book from the author of Giraffes Can't Dance! When a music-loving dog meets a fox with a fiddle, they decide to start a BOOGIE-WOOGIE ANIMAL BAND! Before long, the pair are joined by a lion with...
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Join in the counting musical fun as animal after animal joins the Big-Time Boogie-Woogie Animal Band!
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Description
Join in the counting musical fun with this brand-new picture book from the author of Giraffes Can't Dance!
When a music-loving dog meets a fox with a fiddle, they decide to start a BOOGIE-WOOGIE ANIMAL BAND!
Before long, the pair are joined by a lion with a lute, a tiger with a tuba, and a piano-playing penguin. As more friends join them, the band keeps getting bigger and bigger and BIGGER!
But there's one band member missing . . . Who could it be?
Count and jiggle along with this toe-tapping rhyming celebration of music and rhythm from stand-out pairing Giles Andreae (Giraffes Can't Dance) and Nick East (Christopher Pumpkin).
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781408370384
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Orchard Books
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Nick East
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 250.0mm
Height: 275.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Giles Andreae (Author)
Giles Andreae is the author of many top-selling, award-winning picture books. These include Elephant Me, Rumble in the Jungle, Commotion in the Ocean and I Love My Mummy. However, it is for the international bestseller Giraffes Can't Dance that he is best known. Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie, Britain's favourite stickman, and of the artist/philosopher, Edward Monkton. These two ranges of greetings cards, books and merchandise have made Giles the country's top-selling living poet. Giles lives with his wife, Victoria, a children's clothes designer, and their four children by the river in Oxfordshire.Nick East (Illustrator) Nick East is the illustrator of the bestselling TOTO THE NINJA CAT series, written by Dermot O'Leary. He is also the illustrator of Michelle Robinson's popular GOODNIGHT . . . series. He worked for many years as a museum designer but has always been a storyteller whether, as a child, filling sketchbooks with quirky characters or, as a designer, displaying a collection of ancient artefacts. Nick is based in York.Also by Giles Andreae
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