King Glut loved eggs. He had tasted every egg imaginable: scrambled, boiled, poached, fried and curried. One day he read that the rare dodo bird had been spotted, so he set sail to go and find one of its eggs. At the same time another ship set sail in search of the dodo, but for a different reason. Reg Cartwright won the Mother Goose Award for his first picture book, "Mrs Potter's Pidgeon".

 

This is volume 1 in Red Fox Picture .

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1990 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Selina Hastings is a distinguished journalist, biographer and literary editor. In addition to Peter and the Wolf, she has retold a number of classic tales for Walker, including The Canterbury Tales (also illustrated by Reg Cartwight), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady; and The Cock, the Mouse and the Little Red Hen. Reg Cartwright is a successful painter as well as illustrator of children's books, often in partnership with his wife, Ann. Among his titles are Birds, Beasts and Fishes, a Walker anthology of verse, and Mr Potter's Pigeon, winner of the Mother Goose Award.