The book features beautiful illustrations packed with detail. Children will love looking for the key objects (from animals , plants and flowers to vehicles,) illustrated and spelt out in more than 125 vignettes in the full-page illustrations, which are also crammed with marvellous incidental details.
Benedict Blathwayt spent much of his youth, childhood and early years of married life on Mull. He has written and illustrated over 50 picture books for Julie MacRae, Walker Books, Hutchinson, OUP and Rex Fox, among others, and his work has appeared in 14 languages. He won the Smarties Prize in 1988 for Tangle and the Firesticks.
