If Only

The child wishes to fly like a butterfly, but the butterfly wishes to hide like a stick insect. All the garden creatures long to be like somebody else. Internationally bestselling author-illustrator Mies van Hout lets readers discover without preaching that the best person to be is themselves.

About the author

Mies van Hout is the author and illustrator of the picture
books Happy, Friends, Surprise,
From One to Ten, and This Is My Daddy, among
others, which have been hugely popular in Europe and North America. She studied
graphic design at the Arts Academy in Groningen, the Netherlands, and has
worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer since 1989. Her
distinctive paintings are cheerful and bold, and her work has been published in
more than twenty countries.

Summary

Now in paperback! Bestselling author-illustrator Mies van Hout employs vivid creatures in a jewel-tone natural setting to explore the longing we all feel at times to be like somebody else

Foreword

• 5,000-copy
  print run
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• Targeted
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Product details

• Authors: Mies Van Hout
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 7
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.04.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9781772782769
• ISBN: 978-1-77278-276-9
• No. of pages: 32
• Illustrations: Full-color illustrations throughout
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Picture books; Picture storybooks, envy, Interest age: from c 4 years, 5-7 years, Fiction, Picture Book, Non-character, Non Tie-in, Human behavior--Juvenile fiction, Animals--Adaptation