Colours, Colours Everywhere

**Nominated for Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2024** 'Lush illustrations with cut-out details and unfolding flaps take readers on a joyous journey through Donaldson's rhyming text.' - Guardian A stunning book to encourage creativity, bursting with colourful landscapes to stimulate the imagination. Follow a little girl in Colours, Colours Everywhere as she paints her own adventure with her bright blue tree frog companion. With luscious green trees to climb and red hot air balloons to sail away in, young children will delight in the rhyming story and vibrant artwork while learning about different colours. A truly beautiful gift with flaps to lift and absolute must for the family bookshelf. From Julia Donaldson, bestselling author of The Gruffalo, and Sharon King-Chai, who together created the award-winning Animalphabet and Counting Creatures. Review: In Colours, Colours Everywhere Julia Donaldson and Sharon King-Chai add even more magic to a world of nature and colour which is both a compulsive page turner and a beautifully designed book. -- John Newman * Books for Keeps * Lush illustrations with cut-out details and unfolding flaps take readers on a joyous journey through Donaldson's rhyming text. -- Imogen Russell Williams * The Guardian * Author Biography: Julia Donaldson is the author of some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle books illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs - and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. Her books with Sharon King-Chai include Animalphabet, Counting Creatures and Colours, Colours Everywhere. She was Children's Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with an MBE for Services to Literature. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between West Sussex and Edinburgh. Sharon King-Chai is an enormously talented designer and illustrator. Having grown up in Australia, she moved to London in 2003 and since then has brought her style and eye for beautiful design to album covers, book covers, stationery and her books including Starbird and the award-winning Animalphabet, Counting Creatures and Colours, Colours Everywhere, collaborations with Julia Donaldson. Sharon has a passion for innovation, and her artwork and clever use of paper engineering encourage the reader to think differently about the pages they hold in their hands.