Poppa Bombola looked in the cot – looked in the cot and got such a shock.
He’s lost his darling daughter!
High and low he searches, getting more and more desperate, and completely ignoring his farmyard friends who try to point out that his daughter is, in fact, quite safe…
- "A stunning book that deserves to be a classic. My two-year-old quickly became addicted to it... incredibly satisfying to read aloud. " 'Look at a Book' The Guardian
- "Small people will chuckle because they can see what Poppa can't!" Daily Express
- "charming rhythmical rhyming text..." Books for Keeps
The beauty of picture books is that you can get two stories working at once – the story that the words tell, and the story that the pictures tell. In Where’s my Darling Daughter? I was going for the pantomime effect. Katharine McEwen’s illustrations positively invite children to join in and shout “Look behind you!”
I vividly remember my three year old son going AWOL in the supermarket. There I was, momentarily mesmerised by the price of baked beans, and the next thing I knew I’d lost my son. I couldn’t find him for all of five minutes. It felt like the end of the world. So I wanted to write a story that was funny and safe, but captured a bit of that feeling. I guess I hoped that if I showed little children just how precious they are to their parents maybe they’d be a little bit less inclined to go wandering off at the first opportunity!
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