Hello Baby!

Hello Baby!
ISBN: 9780143504139
Publication Date: 2 August 2010

*Clever monkey babies, dusty lion babies, sleepy leopard babies - the world is filled with beautiful babies.

But which one is the most treasured baby of all*

A simple, repetitive storyline which introduces the first-time reader to young animals, with the satisfying conclusion of identifying themselves. Clean, spare and compulsive words, very typically Mem in delivery with charming 'paper art' similar in style to Eric Carle.

About The Author

Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chlo, happily ever after.

Mem Fox is Australia's most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, Possum Magic, is the best selling children's book ever in Australia, with sales of over four million. And in the USA Time for Bed and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge have each sold over a million copies. Time for Bed is on Oprah's list of the twenty best children's books of all time. Mem has written over thirty five picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling Reading Magic, aimed at parents of very young children. Her recent book: Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, beautifully illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, was on the New York Times bestseller lists for 18 weeks in 2008/2009. It also won the 'best book for 0-3 year olds' award (May 2010) at the International Book Fair in Turin, in its Italian edition.

Mem Fox was an Associate Professor in Literacy Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide (Australia), where she taught teachers for twenty four years until her early retirement in 1996. She has received many civic awards, honours and accolades in Australia, including two honorary doct...