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Informationen zum Autor Jeanne Willis is an award-winning children's author and scriptwriter. She had her first picture book published by Andersen at the age of 21, and has won the Silver Medal Smarties Prize ( Tadpole's Promise ), the Nasen Special Needs Award ( Susan Laughs ), the Sheffield Children's Book Award ( Who’s in The Loo ) and the Red House Children's Book Award ( Bottoms Up ). Jeanne has also worked on scripts for TV, including Polly Pocket and The Slow Norris , and a pilot TV series for Dr Xargle . Tony Ross has been illustrating books for 50 years, and has been published all over the world. He is perhaps best known for his much-loved Little Princess series, which has been adapted for TV and is currently showing on Channel 5's Milkshake, and for his collaboration on David Walliams’ best-selling children’s books. Tony’s books have been shortlisted for the The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards ( Slug Needs a Hug ) and the Kate Greenaway ( Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers ), and Tadpole’s Promise won the Silver Medal Smarties Prize . He was named as the best-selling illustrator in the UK for three years in a row, and he is the UK’s libraries' most-borrowed illustrator. He lives in Macclesfield. Klappentext "Good morning, class. Today we are going to learn about Earthlets. They come in four colours. Pink, brown, black or yellow... but not green." In this way Dr. Xargle, our friendly alien teacher, begins to teach his class about humans and babies."Good morning, class. Today we are going to learn about Earthlets."In this way Dr Xargle, our friendly alien teacher, begins to teach his class about humans and babies. This is a hysterically funny book, with a particularly wry look at the way we bring up babies: look out for the 'egg-mangle' - will you ever want to eat egg again?
