Brimming with glorious patterns of stripes and spots, an award-winning picture book favourite by Nick Sharratt. In this firm family favourite from Nick Sharatt, the award-winning illustrator of the Jacqueline Wilson books, mum is crazy about spots - spotty clothes, spotty wallpaper, spotty games like dominoes. Dad, on the other hand, loves stripes - stripy suits and stripy ties, stripy humbug sweets. No wonder they make their son laugh! Mind you, they think that he's funny in his grey patternless clothes. When they go to the safari park, Mum goes wild about the big cats, while Dad enthuses over the zebras. But what animal will their son like?

 

This book has been graded for interest at 3-5 years.

There are 28 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 2012 by Walker Books Ltd .

Nick Sharratt was winner of the Sheffield Book Award and the Children's Book Award in 2001.