An outstanding new picture book with an extremely simple text - full of humour with a brilliant twist at the end. Hungry Hen eats and eats and grows fatter and fatter. High on the hill the fox watches and grows thinner and thinner. Until one day he can stand it no longer, but things do not turn out as expected!
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Born "a nice Jewish boy", in North London, Richard Waring did a variety of jobs before becoming a writer of children,s books. From bus conductor to theatre director, it was teaching that really ignited Richard,s passion. He has worked as a lecturer at Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Sussex Universities and now teaches secondary. Richard started writing children,
More about Richard WaringCaroline has also had Wobble Bear and Wobble Bear Says Yellow published with OUP. Other titles include Do Your Ears Hang Low (Chicken House), Mouse in the Marmalade (Hodder), Tortoise in the Toilet (Hodder). She lives in Farnham, Surrey.
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