Calling All Toddlers

by Francesca Simon, Susan Winter (Illustrations)

Boisterous youngsters can dance, play word games, recite poems, and more, in a fun and exciting book that contains an abundance of entertaining activities.

Genres: Poetry, Picture Books

33 pages, Hardcover

Published March 1, 1999

About the author

Francesca Simon grew up in California and attended both Yale and Oxford Universities, where she specialised in Medieval Studies. How this prepared her to write children’s books she cannot imagine, but it did give her a thorough grounding in alliteration.

She then threw away a lucrative career as a medievalist and worked as a freelance journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Telegraph, and Vogue (US). After her son Joshua was born in 1989, she started writing children’s books full time. One of the UK’s best-selling children’s writers, Francesca has published over 50 books, including the immensely popular HORRID HENRY series, which has now sold over twelve million copies.

Francesca won the Children’s Book of the Year in 2008 at the British Book Awards for Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman. HORRID HENRY is published in 24 countries and is also an animated CITV series. She lives in London with her husband, son, and Tibetan Spaniel, Shanti.

Reviews

[Fjóla · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are lots of things in this book that catch the toddler's eye, and they may want to linger on some of the pages. It can probably be used along with some activities. It's not a story book in the proper sense however, and rather disparate when you read through the whole thing. My son liked parts of it, I just didn't enjoy reading it all that much myself.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun book to read aloud and act out