Where's Tumpty
by Polly Dunbar
One of Polly Dunbar's Tilly and Friends series, which follow the imaginary adventures of Tilly and her toy animals.
Gently funny, the whole series mirrors the games which small children like to play, and Tumpty the elephant likes to play hide-and-seek, but has difficulty in finding anything big enough to hide him.
When he does disappear, characters we meet in the other books search with Tilly to try to find him, and eventually he jumps up from behind the sofa, to surprise them all.
Dunbar's characteristic illustrations are particularly child-friendly, recognisably toy-based animals. The colours are soft and the print carefully used to indicate the tone of the narrative, becoming suddenly large when Tumpty jumps up, and even bigger when they see him.
Publisher: Walker Books
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Polly Dunbar
Polly Dunbar studied illustration at Brighton Art School and now lives and works in London. Author and illustrator of Penguin, Dog Blue and Flyaway Katie, she thinks that colour is a brilliant way to cheer yourself up and whenever she's feeling grey, she puts on her best pink frock and paints! Polly is the daughter of the distinguished author Joyce Dunbar who she collaborated with on the picture book Shoe Baby. She is also the illustrator of My Dad's a Birdman, written by David Almond, and Here's a Little Poem, an anthology of poems for very young children. Polly was one of the Best New Illustrators 2008 and Booktrust's fourth writer in residence read her blog. Polly lives and works in Brighton.
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