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Kipper's Birthday Award-winning author

by Mick Inkpen (author)

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Suitable for 3 - 5 years

Format: Paperback
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Product description

A classic Kipper picture book, perfect for sharing together.

Kipper’s birthday is tomorrow. He bakes a yummy cake to share with his friends and writes some invitations. But when he writes ‘come tomorrow’ and hands them out on his birthday morning, things all get a bit confusing … Luckily it all turns out well in the end when his friends arrive with the best present ever!

This charming story is perfect for teaching children about today, yesterday and tomorrow. A concept that young children can often struggle with.

Kipper has been a much-loved picture book character for over 25 years.

“The charmingly comical Inkpen, as always, hits the spot” – Guardian “You simply cannot fail to win smiles with a new book about Kipper” – Daily Mail

Product Details

Catalogue number

6119 in Books and Resources for Schools 2021

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781444918175

Publisher

Hodder Children's Books

Date published

April 3rd, 2014

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

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Author/Illustrator

Mick Inkpen

Mick Inkpen is one of the most popular author/illustrators in the world. His books have sold over 4 million copies, and have been translated into over twenty different languages. His best-loved characters are probably Kipper and Wibbly Pig – who are both stars of their very own TV series!

He began his career as a graphic designer, and worked with another children’s author Nick Butterworth (of Percy the Park Keeper fame) on a cartoon strip for the Sunday Express. In 1989 The Blue Balloon was published to great acclaim, and established him as an important and original voice in children’s picture books. He and his wife, Debbie, also had children of their own by this point: “Without the experience of having children of my own I doubt that I would have been capable of writing effectively for children. And yet it’s true that good work really springs from trying to please yourself”

Mick lives in Essex with his wife and two children.

He began his career as a graphic designer, declining a place to study English at Cambridge University. During this period he worked with Nick Butterworth, a fellow children’s author, from whom he learned design and typography. Together they developed a cartoon strip for the Sunday Express magazine, later to become a first series of children’s picture books. They also worked in children’s television.

In 1989 The Blue Balloon established him as a truly original voice in children’s picture books, by which time Mick and his wife Debbie had two children of their own. “Without the experience of having children of my own I doubt that I would have been capable of writing effectively for children. And yet it’s true that good work really springs from trying to please yourself”