Guess How Much I Love You - Gift Edition Synopsis
Big and Little Nutbrown Hare, from the multi-million-selling picture book "Guess How Much I Love You", return for the first time in nearly fifteen years in these four brand-new picture books: "Spring", "Summer", "Autumn" and "Winter". Each captivating story is seasonally themed and beautifully illustrated, and the four books are collected in a covetable slipcase.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781406304510 |
| Publication date: |
5th November 2007 |
| Author: |
Sam McBratney |
| Publisher: |
Walker Books Ltd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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About Sam McBratney
Sam McBratney (1 March 1943 – 18 September 2020) won many awards for his children’s books and is best known as the author of the multi-million selling Guess How Much I Love You which was shortlisted for the 1994 Kurt Maschler Award, and is now one of the world’s bestselling picture books.
As a child In his own words, Sam McBratney spent his postwar childhood “in short trousers and Fair Isle jumpers.” He remembers studying for his 11-plus exam, before going to grammar school, and then on to study History and Political Science at Trinity College in Dublin.
As an adult Sam became a teacher and taught at a further education college, a grammar school and a primary school. He took early retirement from the teaching profession to concentrate on his career as a writer. Sam is married with three grown-up children and a teenage tortoise, and lives in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
As an artist Sam has won many awards for his children’s books and is best known as the author of the multi-million selling Guess How Much I Love You which was shortlisted for the 1994 Kurt Maschler Award, and is now one of the world’s best-selling picture books. In 2004, Sam reunited with Guess How Much I Love You illustrator Anita Jeram to produce the follow-up, You’re All My Favourites, and the two of them collaborated again in 2007 to produce a series of brand-new storybooks featuring the Nutbrown Hares: Guess How Much I Love You in the Spring followed by Summer, Autumn and Winter and brought together in Guess How Much I Love You All Year Round.
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