Tulliver is a little rabbit who hates washing his face. One day he decides he has had enough, and leaves home to live in a burrow under a big oak tree at the far end of the field. But when night time comes, and Tulliver's burrow is not finished, a very hungry, muddy and miserable rabbit settles down to sleep. Perhaps he isn't ready to leave home after all?

 

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 2008 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Linda Ashman Hicks is one to watch. She is the author of Simon and Schuster's upcoming How to Find a Chenoo and has other titles in the pipeline. Illustrator Susan Winter's list includes popular picture books, I Can, Me Too and A Baby Just Like Me among others. Diana Reynolds Roome taught English as a foreign language in Nepal and is now a freelance writer specialising in travel. Jude Daly was born in London and emigrated to South Africa as a young child. She went to art college in Cape Town, and now lives there with her husband, the writer and illustrator Niki Daly, and their two sons.