Everyone in her family says Lily is too loud. She is too loud at home - she wakes the baby. She is too loud at school too. But when Miss Loopiola comes to teach drama, Lily Hippo finds is just loud enough for the school play! Ages 5+.

 

This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Children's Choice Award.

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 2003 by Scholastic Australia .

SOFIE LAGUNA has written several popular books for children and young adults (Bird and Sugar Boy, My Yellow Blankie, Too Loud Lily and Bad Buster). She is also an actor. One Foot Wrong was her first adult novel. She lives in Melbourne. CRAIG SMITH is one of Australia's most prolific children's book illustrators. He has collaborated with many of Australia's best-loved authors, and his books include Cat, Billy the Punk, the Cabbage Patch series by Paul Jennings, several books by Doug MacLeod including Sister Madge's Book of Nuns and Where's Mum, and several books for Allen + Unwin including The Big Ball of String, The Boy Who Built the Boat and Heather Fell in the Water. Kerry Argent is one of Australia's finest and most highly acclaimed illustrators. Her first picture book, One Woolly Wombat was published while she was still at art school and went on to become an international bestseller. For over a decade, Kerry combined illustrating books with her job as Art Director at Omnibus Books in Adelaide. She now illustrates full time and works on texts of her own, like India the Showstopper, as well as continuing to collaborate with Australia's best known picture book writers.