Alfie Gets in First
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published:7th May '09
Should be back in stock very soon
A timeless picture book and the first in the hugely popular Alfie series.
Alfie and his mum and baby sister, Annie Rose, arrive home after shopping. So now Alfie's stuck INSIDE and his mum and Annie Rose are stuck OUTSIDE without a key! Soon everyone in the street is trying to help rescue Alfie - but he's got a plan of his own .Alfie and his mum and baby sister, Annie Rose, arrive home after shopping. While his mum struggles with the pushchair outside, Alfie rushes inside and slams the door behind him. So now Alfie's stuck INSIDE and his mum and Annie Rose are stuck OUTSIDE without a key! Soon everyone in the street is trying to help rescue Alfie - but he's got a plan of his own . . .
Enormously satisfying. * The Guardian *
There's just something so reassuring about Hughes' colourful drawings of the day-to-day activities that you know inside out . . . Words and pictures merge seamlessly . . . Hughes is a magical storyteller with an instinctive understanding of the mind of the pre-schooler . . . She makes the ordinary extraordinary * Guardian *
Shirley Hughes is a national treasure -- Philip Pullman
Text and artwork are both delightful and sympathetically balanced * British Book News *
ISBN: 9781862307834
Dimensions: 252mm x 252mm x 3mm
Weight: 194g
32 pages