Brita Granström

Brita Granström
Brita Granström grew up on a Swedish farm and has an MFA in Fine Art from Konstfack, Stockholm. She and Mick Manning live in the Scottish Borders have four sons. Their first book together, The World is Full of Babies won the Smarties Silver Award in 1996 and their second book, What's Under the Bed? took the TES Junior Information Book Award in 1997. Yum Yum and How Did I Begin? were 2 of the 6 children's books shortlisted for the Rhone Poulene Prize in 1998. Science School made the shortlist in the following year. In 2000, Wash, Scrub, Brush! won the English Association's non-fiction award for the best picture book, with Let's Party making the shortlist in 2001. Brita won both Parenting Magazine's Book of the Year and the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award 2000 with her illustrations for Judy Hindley's Eyes, Nose, Fingers, Toes.

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Taff in the WAAF

A companion to the successful and innovative Tail-End Charlie, this tells the fascinating story of life on the Home Front in World War II

Category: Humanities
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Hardback    £11.99
Tail-End Charlie

As a boy, Mick Manning listened to his father’s tales about life as an RAF airgunner during WWII. Now he has carefully recreated those stories; for Charlie's grandchildren – and for everyone.

Category: Picture information, Humanities
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £6.99
Viking Longship

Watch ship builders at work, charge into battle, enjoy the hustle and bustle of market day and listen to fireside tales about the Viking gods - you can even wipe a tear from your eye at a Viking funeral.

Category: Picture information, Humanities
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £6.99
What Mr Darwin Saw

A colourful and fascinating introduction to the life and work of one of the world's most important scientists.

Category: Picture information, Science
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £7.99
 
Hardback    £12.99
Woolly Mammoth

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the Woolly Mammoth? Includes an illustrative fact strip from the very latest Mammoth discoveries.

Category: Picture information, Science
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Hardback    £11.99
Yuck!

What's for supper? A wriggly worm? Yuck! Come and join various sorts of babies in the slimiest, stinkiest, most revolting feast ever. But with spiders, lizards and rotten eggs on the menu, who will say 'yum!' and who will say 'yuck!'?

Category: Early Literacy, Picture story books
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
 
Paperback    £5.99
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