Wish You Were Here (and I Wasn't)
Author(s): Colin McNaughton
A selection of nearly 50 madcap poems and pictures on the theme of travelling. Meet The Oozily Woozily Plonk, The Squidgeree and Miss Melanie Mish; join the aliens on vacation and Frankenstein's Monster World Tour; and take a trip to Pleasure Island or a flight of fancy.
General Information
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- : Walker Books Ltd
- : Walker Books Ltd
- : 0.11
- : 06 May 2002
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Colin McNaughton
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 821.914
- : 93
- : b&w illustrations
More About The Product
Colin McNaughton won the Kurt Maschler Award for "Have You Seen Who's Just Moved in Next Door To Us?" and his "Here Come the Aliens!" was shortlisted for both the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Sheffield Children's Book Award.
Shortlisted for Blue Peter Book Award 2001.
Colin McNaughton has written four other volumes of verse. There's An Awful Lot of Weirdos in Our Neighbourhood, Who's Been Sleeping in My Porridge?, Making Friends with Frankenstein and Merry Christmas. Among his numerous picture books are Have You Seen Who's Just Moved in Next Door to Us? (Winner of the 1991 Kurt Maschler Award); Jolly Roger (Winner of the 1989 British Children's Book Award); Captain Abdul's Pirate School; Watch Out for the Giant-killers!; Who's That Banging on the Ceiling?; Here Come the Aliens (shortlisted for the 1987 Kate Greenaway Award); Dracula's Tomb and several stories about a pig called Preston.
