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Chick Pea

By Steve Antony
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From the award-winning creator of Please Mr Panda, Steve Antony, comes Chick Pea - a fun first look at foods and colours. Hands up if you're hungry! Chick LOVES peas and he's getting ready for a pea party. But perhaps not everyone likes pea pizza or... Read More
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Hands up if you’re hungry! It’s time to eat a rainbow of food with pea-loving Chick with this first look at foods and colours in the exciting picture book series from Steve Antony - award-winning creator of Please Mr Panda.

Hands up if you're hungry! It's time to eat a rainbow of food with pea-loving Chick. A first look at foods and colours and a brand new title in the exciting new picture book series from Steve Antony - award-winning creator of Please Mr Panda.

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From the award-winning creator of Please Mr Panda, Steve Antony, comes Chick Pea - a fun first look at foods and colours.

Hands up if you're hungry!

Chick LOVES peas and he's getting ready for a pea party. But perhaps not everyone likes pea pizza or peas on toast... and why stick with green when there's a whole rainbow of good food to enjoy? Roll on red, hello yellow and hooray for blue! Now come on in and wash your hands, it looks like this party is ready to start!

Chick Pea is the third title in Steve Antony's series on key childhood moments and milestones. Fresh, funny and utterly relatable, with a playful text that will delight young and old.

For more toddler milestone moments:

  • Cat Nap
  • Bird Bath

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035029075

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 3.0mm

Width: 250.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 186g

Pages: 32

Collections

Children's Books Children's Early Years Children's Fiction Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Steve Antony

About the Author

Steve Antony is an award-winning writer and illustrator of many children’s books including Cat Nap and Bird Bath – seven of which have been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and is best known for his ongoing Mr Panda series which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. Along with the award-winning modern classic The Queen’s Hat (and its three sequels) his other picture books include a two-time collaboration with Tim Minchin, for When I Grow Up and Sometimes You Have To Be A Little Bit Naughty, the all-new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang picture book and You Can! - Kids Empowering Kids as well as the 70th Anniversary edition of Enid Blyton's Famous Five: Five Have a Wonderful Time. He has also contributed work towards LGBTQ+ anthology Proud, Drawing Europe Together and Kind. Steve is Swindon Libraries Patron to Children’s Reading Services, an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and a committee member of The Society of Author’s Children’s Writers and Illustrators Group. Steve is colour vision deficient, more commonly known as colour-blind. He lives in South West England with his husband and cat.

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