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Boom, baby, boom boom!

It's time for lunch. Leaving the baby to feed herself, Mum starts playing the drums, boom-boom-boom. But the animals are listening at the window are hungry. In creeps the cat, followed by the dog, the red rooster and his hens, the sheep and the cow. When Mum stops playing she is happy to see that ba...

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Main Author: Mahy, Margaret (Author)
Other Authors: Chamberlain, Margaret (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London : Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2014.
Subjects:
Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Luncheons > Juvenile fiction.
Food > Juvenile fiction.
Animals > Juvenile fiction.
Babies > Juvenile fiction.
Drum > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:It's time for lunch. Leaving the baby to feed herself, Mum starts playing the drums, boom-boom-boom. But the animals are listening at the window are hungry. In creeps the cat, followed by the dog, the red rooster and his hens, the sheep and the cow. When Mum stops playing she is happy to see that baby has eaten every bit and bite of her lunch. Or has she?
Item Description:A picture story book for children by a New Zealander.
Originally published in Great Britain and USA in 1997 with illustrations by Patricia McCarthy, by Viking Children's Books.
"Janetta Otter-Barry Books."
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience:Junior.
ISBN:9781847804105
1847804101
Author Notes:Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76.

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