Oi Duck-billed Platypus! (Oi Frog and Friends)

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Jim has illustrated children's books with Kes Gray, Rachel Bright, Julian Gough, Michelle Robinson, Michael Broad, Jeanne Willis, Steve Cole, comedian David Baddiel and Sir Michael Morpurgo. Using the strange names and often stranger appearance of animals, this funny, rhyming, read-aloud picture book, will amuse both children and parents and perhaps inspired a few poets in the making. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Laugh-aloud humour which will have young readers in fits of giggles - and improve their rhyming ability, too. He sat reading aloud and laughing at some of the rhymes - he reads it over and over and gets so much enjoyment for it.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Loved by children and parents, the books have won numerous awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award, and been shortlisted for many more! Rhyming is such a hard concept for young children to get so this book is a great chance to learn and have loads of fun.

Here is a library of books created by a community of parents and children where you can browse books that others have enjoyed and recommended.Jim has won multiple awards for the children's books he has illustrated; including the Lollies, The Roald Dahl Funny Prize, The Evening Standards Oscars Prize and The Sainsbury's Award. His first picture book, ‘Cats Ahoy’ written by Peter Bently won the Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2011.

Loved by children and parents, the books have won numerous awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award , and been shortlisted for many more! Loved by children and parents, the books have won numerous awards, including the Laugh Out Loud Picture Book Award, and been shortlisted for many more! The Oi series have quickly become bedtime favourites for us and I often choose it for them/me if they pause in choosing too long. Frames are Fine Art Trade Guild accredited which means they meet strict conservation standards and are built to last for generations to come.Never read any of the oi series, home schooling an the school sent a video of the teacher reading a book (oi frog). As with the previous books supported by the brilliant illustrations these are all about playing with rhyming words and give plenty of chance to try out phonics sounds with loads of humour thrown in. We read it last night for the first time (reward for our reward rocket chart as per my other reviews), and had a giggle. In addition to being an award-winning illustrator, Jim is a character designer and animation director, working across a variety of projects including music videos and title sequences to advertising and picture books.

And Kookaburras and hippopotamuses and all the other animals with impossible to rhyme with names… Over to you Frog! the fifth title from the brilliant Oi series created by Kes Gray and Jim Field, which now totals seven books and has sold over one million copies. Younger readers will love hearing the story and older ones will enjoy the challenge of trickier vocabulary in the book. The only thing I'd say, is as an adult, these are now a bit "samey", but they are helping the boy with his phonics and rhymes so. K. Rowling's The Christmas Pig and his debut author-illustrator bilingual picture book, Monsieur Roscoe on Holiday.He has won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and the Laugh Out Loud Book Award and has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards. After time working in London he now lives in the French countryside with his wife and young daughter. The print is framed by hand in Cambridgeshire in the UK, using only European sourced PEFC™ and FSC approved woods.