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Charlie and Lola: I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato Board Book

On sale

8th March 2018

Price: £6.99

CILIP Kate Greenaway Children's Book Award, 2001

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Selected: Board book / ISBN-13: 9781408353301

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A classic Charlie and Lola picture book about fussy eating from Children’s Laureate Lauren Child – now in a brilliant board book!

Lola will not peas. In fact she won’t eat carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, cabbage or baked beans. And she will absolutely not ever NEVER eat a tomato. But when Charlie explains that peas are actually green drops from Greenland, and carrots are really orange twiglets from Jupiter, even Lola is tempted to clear her plate…

Told with true Lauren Child style, this warm and funny picture book will make dinner time fun for even the fussiest of eaters!

Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal

Reviews

NLA Guide to Literary Resources
Brilliant design and a delight to share
Sue Walker, Books For Keeps
One of my favourite books for children...The story is compelling and the pictures enchanting, but the typography is not what you would expect. The letters vary in shape and size, some lines are straight and others meander across the page. Young children love this; those who cannot yet read pick out the letters; those who can, love the variation and delight at being able to cope with it.
Financial Times
[Child] brings an eclecticism and freshness to her work that appeals directly to children
Sunday Telegraph
Brilliant
The Guardian
Your offspring will be drawn in by the off-the-wall visuals that mix line drawings and patterns with photographs, creating a world that is absolutely grounded in reality yet also wildly imaginative
Independent
So good, it's exhilarating
Daily Mail
Teatime will never be the same again after this glorious book by the Smarties Prize-winning author
Books For Keeps
A mischievous wit and cunning simplicity which, although it may have baffled some traditionalists, is still instantly embraced and understood by children
Nicholas Tucker, The Independent
Only Lauren Child could come up with an idea as successfully wacky as this
The Sunday Times
A wonderful corrective for picky eaters
The Guardian
A paean to the early resistance years that are toddlerdom
Bookseller
A fresh and very funny picture book
Mother and baby.co.uk
A fun look at fussy eating
Time Out
Quirky imagination and wry humour make this a wonderful book
Literacy & Learning
A brilliantly designed book from cover, typography and illustration to endpapers and will amuse all those fussy eaters out there
Guide to Literary Resources
Brilliant design and a delight to share
motherandbaby.co.uk
A fun look at the problem of fussy eating
Bookseller
A superb book to make you laugh out loud