Lou Peacock is lucky enough to have one of the best jobs in the world: ‘Publishing Director of Picture Books’ at Nosy Crow. She has a degree in English Literature from Oxford University, and over twenty years’ experience in children’s publishing. She started her editorial career working on novelty books, but has focussed on picture books and poetry for the last 15 years. She often puts her author hat on to write picture books for Nosy Crow and has a notebook full of scribbled ideas.
<p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: davis, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 248, 246);">An utterly nutterly book all about sharing!</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: davis, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 248, 246);">When a little squirrel finds a big pile of nuts, he is VERY excited! But soon he is joined by another squirrel . . . and this squirrel thinks the nuts belong to HER. And when Mouse, Bear and Badger get involved, well, things get VERY confusing indeed! They won’t even listen to wise Rabbit. Will the quarrelsome squirrels ever learn to share?</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: davis, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 248, 246);">This is a hilarious and deceptively simple story with a comically delivered message about learning to share, perfect for fans of Jon Klassen, Kes Gray and Ed Vere. Lou Peacock cleverly introduces little ones to pronouns – are they <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">my</i> nuts, <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">your</i> nuts, <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">his</i> nuts, <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">her</i> nuts, <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">their</i> nuts or <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">our</i> nuts?</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: davis, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(249, 248, 246);"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Nuts</i> features wonderfully energetic artwork by V&A-award-winning illustrator Yasmeen Ismail, creator of <i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Time for Bed, Fred!</i> Yasmeen also won The New York Times Best Illustrated Book award and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal.</p>
