This collection features six stories about toddler Tom and his soft-toy monkey Pippo. Helen Oxenbury won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1979 and has been Highly Commended for the same award three times since: for "Farmer Duck" and "We're Going on a Bear Hunt", both of which won the Smarties Book Prize (!991 and 1989 respectively), and "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig". "Farmer Duck" also won the 1992 British Book Award for Children's Illustrated Book of the Year. Other titles include "It's my Birthday" and "So Much".

 

This book is part of a book series called Pippo .

There are 29 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 1995 by Walker Books Ltd .

Helen Oxenbury is the renowned illustrator of many classic picture books, including We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas. Ms. Oxenbury lives with her husband, illustrator John Burningham, in North London.