Rabbit and Bear: This Lake is Fake!

Name: Rabbit and Bear: This Lake is Fake!
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Book 6

By Julian Gough

Series: Rabbit and Bear

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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 friends can accept that the world isn't always perfect. Ideal for readers moving on from picture books. 'A perfect animal double-act.' The Times, Book... Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

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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 friends can can accept that the world isn't always perfect. Ideal for readers moving on from picture books.

Description

'A perfect animal double-act.' The Times, Book of the Week

Rabbit is fed up. Spring has finally arrived, but it's not as perfect as he hoped it would be.

Bear thinks that if they work hard, they can improve things, a bit. But Rabbit has a MUCH better plan. He sets off across the lake in search of a Perfect World...

Meet Rabbit and Bear in the classic series that has taken the world by storm: this is a story of hope, friendship, a very long journey with no breakfast, and an entire island made of ... of ... wait ... is that chocolate? It looks like chocolate ...

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

6. This Lake is Fake!

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By Julian Gough

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444947588

Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Contributors:

Illustrated by Jim Field

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 112

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Julian Gough Series: Rabbit and Bear

About the Author

Julian and Jim's Rabbit and Bear books have been shortlisted twice for the Children's Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards, and also for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award.

Julian Gough is a novelist, playwright, poet, musician and script-writer. He was born in London, grew up in Ireland and now lives in Berlin. Among many other things, Julian wrote the ending to MINECRAFT, the world's most successful computer game for children of all ages. He likes to drink coffee and steal pigs.

Jim Field is an award-winning illustrator, character designer and animation director. He grew up in Farnborough, worked in London and now lives in Paris. His first picture book, CATS AHOY!, written by Peter Bently, won the BookTrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He is perhaps best known for drawing frogs on logs in the bestselling OI FROG! He likes playing the guitar and drinking coffee.

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