'Stand Back,' Said the Elephant, 'I'm Going to Sneeze!'

Zusatztext “The funniest title of the season is on the jacket of a picture book filled with giggles…Made funnier by Wallace Tripp’s antic illustrations.” Informationen zum Autor Patricia Thomas was raised on a small farm in western Pennsylvania and attended a one-room school. She received a B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University. The author of several rhymed picture book texts, she now works as writer and editor of publications at Marywood College. She lives with her husband in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. They have four children and ten grandchildren. Wallace Tripp (1940–2018) illustrated over sixty books for children, including two Amelia Bedelia books, Come Back, Amelia Bedelia and Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia. Wallace Tripp is also the illustrator of the popular books No Flying in the House and Old Arthur.  Klappentext All the animals are in a panic. The elephant's sneeze would blow the monkeys out of the trees, the feathers off the birds, the stripes off the zebra. Even the fish and the fly, the crocodile and the kangaroo, know what a catastrophe that sneeze would be. "Please don't sneeze!" they beg. . . . The classic story of an enormous sneeze in the marking, told in sprightly nonsense verse, has been newly illustrated in full color to delight a new generation of fans. Zusammenfassung “A picture book filled with giggles.” — Publishers Weekly All the animals are in a panic. The elephant's sneeze would blow the monkeys out of the trees! the feathers off the birds! the stripes off the zebra! Even the fish and the fly! the crocodile and the kangaroo know what a catastrophe that sneeze would be. "Please don't sneeze!" they beg.... This classic story of an enormous sneeze in the marking! told in sprightly nonsense verse! is fun to share with a child at home or as a read-aloud at school. It's sure to make even wriggling little ones pay attention and join in! ...

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Thomas, Patty/ Tripp Thomas, Pattye Echo Thomas, Wallace Tripp
• Assisted by: Wallace Tripp (Illustration)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.1990
• EAN: 9780688093389
• ISBN: 978-0-688-09338-9
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 241 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION: Humorous Stories, JUVENILE FICTION: Classics, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Birds, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Bears, JUVENILE FICTION: Poetry (see also Stories in Verse) *, JUVENILE FICTION: Stories in Verse (see also Poetry), JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Jungle Animals, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Elephants, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Fish, JUVENILE FICTION: Animals / Giraffes