Five Minutes' Peace: The Large Family (Anniversary Edition With Height Chart)

Author: Jill Murphy

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Price : $18.99 NZD
ISBN : 9781406330120
Publisher : Walker Books Australia Pty, Limited
Imprint : Walker Books Australia
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Weight (g) : 0.242
Publication date : 01 June 2011
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RRP : 18.99
Availability date : 01 August 2011
Out of print date : 19 September 2020
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Product Type : books

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Author : Jill Murphy
Series : The Large Family
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 25th anniversary ed
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Pages : 32
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Illustrations : chiefly col. Illustrations
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Description

Celebrate twenty-five years of the Large family with this special edition of a modern picture-book classic. There's never a dull moment with the Large family! One morning Mrs Large, needing some peace and quiet away from her boisterous children, decides to take refuge in the bathroom. She fills herself a foamy bubble-bath and takes in a tray of her favourite breakfast...but finds her peace is to be very short-lived! The jacket of this beautiful gift edition folds out to reveal an exclusive height chart. This title is a Winner of the Best Books for Babies Award. "The Large Family series" has sold nearly five million copies worldwide.

Reviews

"Family life is beautifully observed with a humour that appeals to both adult and child." (Daily Telegraph)"

Author description

Jill Murphy is one of this country's best-known author/illustrators. She wrote and illustrated her first book, the bestselling The Worst Witch, while still only eighteen. She won the Smarties Prize for The Last Noo-noo in 1995. She lives in Bodmin, Cornwall.