Magician Monsieur Lapin is auditioning assistants and Houdini the rabbit is the obvious choice - he loves magic and knows how to take care of everyone and everything in the theatre. So one night when things go wrong, Houdini tries to carry on with the show... and unfortunately that spells rabbit-shaped disaster for his human magician.

 

This book was recognised by the Waterstones Children's Book Award. It was recognised by the Kate Greenaway Medal Award. The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded by childrens librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.

This book has been graded for interest at 0-5 years.

There are 40 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 2017 by Andersen Press Ltd .

Sam Hay grew up in Scotland in a family of bookworms. She always wanted to be a writer and filled endless notebooks with stories and poems. She trained as a journalist in Edinburgh and went on to work in newspapers for the BBC, before deciding to move to Wales and write her first children's book. Since then she's had more than 30 children's books published including Do Not Wash this Bear, Star in the Jar and Dinosaurs United and the Cowardly Custard Pirates for Egmont UK. Praise for Sam Hay: "A magical read . beautifully told" (Star in the Jar) The Guardian Meg McLaren is an illustrator, picturebook maker and printmaker, working digitally and in screen print, based in Inverness. She is a graduate of the MA Children's Book Illustration course at Cambridge School of Art. She was nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Award 2017 and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017. Praise for Meg McLaren: "Inventive and detailed . this is a star of a picture book and Meg McLaren is a new talent to watch" (Life is Magic) Lovereading4Kids "Meg McLaren hits all the right notes with this spare but exhilarating text, bringing it to rich visual life with dynamic and comically energetic illustrations" (Life is Magic) Kirkus