Picture book of the month

This month we've gone for You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus by Patricia Cleveland-Peck & David Tazzyman.

This crazy, chaotic, rhyming story features an array of animals riding unsuitable vehicles, with pictures by the bestselling illustrator of the Mr Gum books - in short the recipe for a completely brilliant picture book!

Never put a camel in a sailing boat, or a tiger on a train, and don't even THINK about asking a whale to ride a bike... This riotous picture book is filled with animals causing total disaster as they try to travel in the most unsuitable vehicles. A real romp of a book, with hilarious rhyming text and spectacular illustrations.

Patricia Cleveland-Peck lived in France and Ireland before settling in rural Sussex. She has published fourteen children's books and has also written adult books and plays. She now works as a travel journalist but with a young granddaughter has returned to the world of children's books.

David Tazzyman is the bestselling illustrator of the Mr Gum books, which have won a multitude of awards, including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. David grew up in Leicester, and studied illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University. You Can’t Take an Elephant on a Bus is his second picture book. He lives in south London with his partner and their three children. 

You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus is available from all good booksellers.