I would like to invite you to check out my newest Christmas Gift Guide 2019 Sponsor who is making her brilliant debut from a rising star of the picture book world. Emma Lazell noted as ‘one to watch’ by The Bookseller magazine:
Emma Lazell is the author of a new children’s book called the Big Cat. I fell in love with the cover of this book before I even opened the book up because of the cat on the cover. I knew Charlie would also want to check the story out because Tiger’s are his favorite animal.
Through Big Cats our children will learn no, matter how different we are we can live together and we can all help each other. All we have to do is be kind to everyone we meet.
Lazell’s bright colors and brilliant characterization gives the book the look of a classic from the 1970’s or earlier, but with a very modern sense of humor and sensibility.
Isobel’s grandma has lost her glasses and she can’t see a thing without them. While Isobel and Gran are in the garden searching for the specs, they come across a cat. A very big cat. A very big and stripy cat!
The big cat moves in with them, much to the disgust of all gran’s other cats. He might be good fun, but he takes up lots of space and eats every scrap of food.
Eventually the new cat’s mom and dad turn up, looking for their missing son. And they just happen to have found gran’s glasses too. The tiger family are delighted to be reunited—and gran now sees that she’s been sharing her house with… a tiger!
A heartwarming and surreal romp, packed with jokes and funny details and with an underlying message of acceptance.
About the author:
Emma Lazell is a UK-based illustrator and author. Her work is linear, expressive, and sprinkled with irony and playfulness. In 2018 she completed the prestigious MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, graduating with a distinction. In 2014 she graduated with an undergraduate degree in Illustration from The University for the Creative Arts. Big Cat is her debut picture book.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
