“I Love My Granny” – a children’s book we wholeheartedly support!

“I love my granny. Can you tell?

She says I’m pretty great as well”

From the author of Giraffes Can’t Dance and the award-winning team of I Love My Mummy and I Love My Daddy, I Love my Granny by Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd is a celebration of grandparents and the special role they play in family life.

The joy of spending a fun-filled day with granny is explored with true-to-life humour and lovely pictures. The perfect present for every family, this book will delight time and time again.

Giles Andreae’s rhyming text perfectly captures the joyful exuberance of young children, and the award-winning Emma Dodd’s cheerful colours and irrepressible illustrations delight children and their parents everywhere.

I Love My Granny is published by Hachette Australia and is available now from Dymocks.

About the authors

Giles Andreae is the author of many top selling award-winning picture books. For Orchard, these include Rumble in the Jungle, Commotion in the Ocean, and I Love My Mummy. However, it is for the international bestseller Giraffes Can’t Dance that he is best known. Giles is also the creator of Purple Ronnie, Britain’s favourite stickman, and of the artist / philosopher, Edward Monkton. These two ranges of greetings cards, books and merchandise have made Giles the country’s top selling living poet and an icon of contemporary popular culture. Giles lives with his wife, Victoria, a children’s clothes designer, and their four young children by the river in Oxfordshire.

Emma Dodd was brought up in Guildford, Surrey, in a family of artists. As a child, she loved the work of Peter Firmin, John Burningham and Gerald Rose and from as far back as she can remember she wanted to be an illustrator. Emma studied Graphic Design and Illustration at Central Saint Martin’s School of Art and has worked in advertising, editorial and book illustration. The I Love You range has sold over 500,000 copies and I Love My Mummy won the Bookstart Early Years Award. Emma lives in Surrey with her husband and two children and their terrier cross, Buzz, who keeps her fit and provides inspiration. The family like to spend any spare time in North Cornwall, surfing and walking in all weathers.

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