Open the gate and crunch down the path to reveal a garden buzzing with
life in this lyrical, interactive peep-through board book.
Children can peek through the pages to reveal all of the things that
make up a garden: from the birds singing in the trees and the insects
scuttling in the grass to the growing plants and rippling pond. The
gorgeous illustrations combined with a novelty board book format make
this a wonderful introduction to nature for young children.
Louise Greig is an award-winning poet and a children's picture book
author with a unique, lyrical voice. Her childhood was filled with
animals, the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson and picture books by iconic
children's writers such as Margaret Wise Brown, Charlotte Zolotow, Ruth
Krauss, Maurice Sendak, Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson. Her debut
picture book for Egmont, The Night Box, has been nominated for the
CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones
Children's Book Prize, the Association of Illustrators Award (AOI), the
Teach Primary Book Awards and the Klaus Flugge Prize. Louise lives in
Aberdeen and is also the director of a dog rescue and re-homing
organisation. The wild solitude of Scotland and the beauty of nature
remain strong influences in her life.
Suzanne Barton graduated with an MA in Children's Book Illustration
from the Cambridge School of Art, where she worked on her first picture
book, The Dawn Chorus. This was shortlisted for the Waterstones
Children's Book Prize, subsequently selected by BookTrust for the
Bookstart Treasure Pack and was read by Eve Myles as a CBeebies Bedtime
Story. Suzanne has been working as an illustrator ever since. Suzanne
illustrated Robin's Winter Song which was nominated for the CILIP Kate
Greenaway medal. Her work has been translated into several languages.
