By Felicity Brooks (author) , Bethan Janine (illustrator)
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Use your imagination and creativity with transfers and crayons to create eleven exquisite gardens from a cottage garden to a summer meadow. Each garden has a delicate line drawing to colour in and a colourful picture to fill with beautiful rub-down transfers of flowers, butterflies, birds, frogs and fish. The transfers are stored in a wallet inside the front cover.
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Go wild with transfers and crayons to create eleven exquisite gardens brimming with blossoms, butterflies and birds.
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There are seven sheets of transfers beautifully illustrated by Bethan Janine, to embellish the intricately designed pages. Includes all kinds of different gardens, from an English cottage garden to a cactus and a Japanese garden. A lovely, creative and therapeutic colouring activity for all ages.
Felicity Brooks was born in Guildford in 1961. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked in Theatre-in-Education and as a freelance lexicographer and teacher of trainee pilots before starting a career in children's publishing nearly 20 years ago.
As well as devising numerous novelty books for babies and toddlers, she has retold myths and legends and worked on encyclopedias, dictionaries, history, geography, languages, poetry, picture books, science, maths and nature.
Her books have won the Practical Pre-school gold and silver medals, the Right Start gold award, The TES Senior Information Book award, La Science se Livre award and been short-listed for the Aventis prizes for science books.
Felicity lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and their seven-year old daughter, Olivia.
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Go wild with transfers and crayons to create eleven exquisite gardens brimming with blossoms, butterflies and birds. There are seven sheets of transfers beautifully illustrated by Bethan Janine, to embellish the intricately designed pages.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Wild Garden and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-8 years old
The Wild Garden features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Recommendations, Featured Books for 5+ readers
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The Wild Garden was written by Felicity Brooks and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd
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