Colin McNaughton s'inspire de l'humour burlesque et de la narration dynamique des bandes dessinées, qu'il considère comme un format moderne et captivant pour les enfants. Il a trouvé sa véritable vocation dans la création de livres pour enfants, un médium qu'il trouve extrêmement gratifiant et qui produit des œuvres tangibles que les enfants et les adultes ont plébiscitées. Son approche met l'accent sur le mouvement et la narration, créant un pont entre le cinéma et le livre traditionnel.
Un manteau rouge, un petit panier, la maison de Mère-grand... Tout cela me rappelle une histoire, mais laquelle ? se demande monsieur Loup. Pour éclater de rire ensemble aux gags de Samson le cochon et monsieur Loup.
Time after time, Preston the pig unknowingly outwits a hungry wolf that is trying to catch and eat him.
It was an ordinary morning when the ordinary boy woke up, and it was an ordinary journey to school - but then Mr Gee bounced into the classroom and everything changed. And the ordinary boy began to write: the words just tumbled out of him pell-mell.
In this colourful picture book, the aliens are coming - in all shapes and sizes. But something frightens them off, and they vanish forever.
This novelty book contains the last remains and journals of Count Dracula, including his school report, his holiday snaps, pictures of his pets and the contents of his fridge. On the last page, the count himself pops up to give the reader a surprise
Mr Wolf is hungry as usual and Preston the Pig has some career suggestions for his enemy so that he will be able to buy food rather than catch it Preston, whilst keeping at a safe distance from Mister Wolf, suggests that he could become a footballer, or a poet or a crane driver or even an astronaut. But no matter what job Mister Wolf imagines himself doing it somehow always manages to involve eating Preston When Preston is called away to his dinner the wolf is also given a dinner of sorts, when Preston's dad drops a solid iron pot of slops on unlucky wolf's head. AGE 4-7
"No-no-no-no-no-no-no!" said Littlesaurus. "Yes," said Daddysaurus. "It's time for bed." Littlesaurus doesn't want to go to bed and can think of a million reasons to stay up. This is a bedtime story, filled with prehistoric humour, that can help even the most exasperated parents get their toddler to bed, and have them chuckling as they do so.
Simple text and illustrations demonstrate in brief vignettes such concepts as cause and effect, adding, parts of a whole, opposites, and the meaning of words.
"Wonderful...It is hard to imagine better first reading books." The Times Educational Supplement.
Not last night but the night before, everyone knocked at the little boy's door, they knocked him down when he let them in, but was there a big surprise for him?
