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Cheer up, Blobfish!
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It's the Festival of Fish - the biggest party of the year! Everyone seems to be having a great time ... except for Blobfish. The clownfish tells some funny gags, the sawfish does magic tricks and the dolphin swims loop-the-loops, but no-one can make Blobfish happy....
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Description
It's the Festival of Fish - the biggest party of the year! Everyone seems to be having a great time ... except for Blobfish.
The clownfish tells some funny gags, the sawfish does magic tricks and the dolphin swims loop-the-loops, but no-one can make Blobfish happy.
Or can they?
Featuring energetic rhyme, joyful illustrations and some fascinating blobfish facts, Cheer Up, Blobfish! is a celebration of difference that stars one VERY misunderstood sea creature.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781922863966
Publisher: Affirm Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 30 April 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Affirm Kids
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Rachel Tribout
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 217.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 24
About the Author
Julie Murphy is a trained zoologist and zookeeper and has been writing children's books for over twenty years. She writes books which she hopes will inspire young readers to be curious about nature and to encourage children to become lifelong readers and conservation stewards. Julie has published more than 20 children's books in Australia and the USA.
Rachel is an illustrator and designer born in France, where she studied visual communication and illustration before relocating to Australia: first Hobart, then Brisbane. She has illustrated several picture books, works with businesses and non-profits, and collaborates with design studios on all sorts of commercial and cultural projects. Rachel's passion for illustration has taken her to far away places - she performed as a visual artist in award winning children's theatre show You and Me and the Space Between in China, Japan and the USA.
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