Mike Barfield

A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You (Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2021)

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Imprint: Buster Books

Publication date: 03/09/2020

ISBN: 9781780556468

Age: 9-11 years

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Buster Reference

Binding: Paperback

Size: 280 x 216 mm

Extent: 128 pages

Illustration: Full colour

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

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Summary:

WINNER OF THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 2021
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If you've ever wanted to know what a panda does all day long, how your heart manages to shift all that blood around your body or what makes a rainbow shine, you've come to the right book.


A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You features the answers to all of these questions and many more, all told in a super-fun comic book format in three awesome sections: Human Body, Animal Kingdom and Earth and Science. A Day in the Life... is packed with facts, laughs and amazing illustrations you can dive into all day long.

Meet your grumpy liver that has to do practically EVERYTHING; your trusty hands that are very, well, handy; the spiky porcupines ready to charge; lonely Mars rovers abandoned on the Red Planet; raging tornadoes ready to rip through the pages of the book and bubbly volcanoes ready to blow.

All entries are told in the fun, friendly and informative style of Mike Barfield, and are brought to life by the colour-explosion of Jess Bradley's awesome illustrations.

Reviews:

Accessible and memorable

Teach Primary

Sales points:

  • Unique format from the hilarious minds of Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley that mixes accurate non-fiction with fun illustrations and comics

  • Featuring a wide variety of entries, from the lungs to the liver, porcupines to pangolins, and the Moon to Mars rovers

  • New title from Mike Barfield, creator of the Destroy This Book in the Name of titles, which have been translated into 16 languages and Pop Out Art

  • Jess Bradley is the illustrator behind I Heart Cute Colouring and the Bright Sparks series

About the Author:

Mike Barfield

Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King’s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children’s Book Award 2021 in the ‘Best Book with Facts’ category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children’s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children’s Science Books (twice). His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.

About the Illustrator:

Jess Bradley

Jess Bradley is an illustrator and comic artist from Torquay. As well as writing and drawing for The Phoenix, she also writes for The Beano and illustrates a variety of children’s books. She has created puzzle and activity and comic books for various publishers, including contributing to Usborne’s bestselling Write and Draw Your Own Comics. Her work for Buster Books includes the Bright Sparks series, I Heart Cute Colouring and the laugh-out-loud A Day in the Life of a Poo, a Gnu and You.

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