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Sloth slept on

A group of children find a sloth snoring away in a tree in their garden. Not knowing what it is, they set out to find out. While the two older children dream up increasingly outrageous possibilities, from an astronaut to a pirate, to a space creature, the youngest little girl investigates books and...

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Main Author: Preston-Gannon, Frann (Author, Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York Sterling Children's Books, 2015.
Edition:First Sterling edition.
Subjects:
Sloths > Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories.
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Summary:A group of children find a sloth snoring away in a tree in their garden. Not knowing what it is, they set out to find out. While the two older children dream up increasingly outrageous possibilities, from an astronaut to a pirate, to a space creature, the youngest little girl investigates books and a globe and discovers what it really is and where it lives. But how can the children help the sloth to get home if it won't wake up?
Item Description:First published in London in 2014 by Pavillion Children's Books.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
ISBN:9781454916116
1454916117
Author Notes:Frann Preston-Gannon has worked freelance for a variety of clients that include: Vintage Books, Sunday Publishing, The PRCA, Spears Magazine , Pavilion Books, the Times , and Burt's Bees. She is the author and illustrator of The Journey Home (Pavilion Press), as well as How to Lose a Lemur and Dinosaur Farm (both Sterling). In April 2011, Frann became the first UK recipient of a Sendak Fellowship and spent a month living with and learning from the great master of illustration, Maurice Sendak, at his home in Connecticut. She was also awarded a bronze medal for her unpublished children's illustrations in the 3x3 Magazine annual competition. She lives in London.

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