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From the former Children’s Laureate and twice winner of the Medal comes a stunning and perceptive story about facing your fears.

A stunning and perceptive story about worry and anxiety, featuring the much loved chimp, Willy. One day Willy goes to the park. It’s a sunny day, but a cloud hovers over him and he can’t join in the fun. What can Willy do to make this mysterious cloud go away? Exceptional illustrations combined with the insightful story makes this an essential book for young children.

Available October 2016

3+ years Walker Books • HB 9781406366969 Arrp $24.99 • NZrrp $27.99

A Bear-y Tale A Walk in the Park By Anthony Browne By Anthony Browne A heart-warming tale of friendship from supreme The fairy-tale adventure of a little white bear artist, Anthony Browne. and his magic pencil. One day Smudge and Charles (two very different children) take walks to the park with their dogs, Albert Bear is walking through a deep dark forest when he and Victoria. The dogs race off and chase each other meets a hungry-looking wolf, a giant, a scary witch around the park, while Smudge and Charles become and a family of three bears. With each encounter, the best of friends. First published in 1977, this tale of Bear draws his way out of danger with the help of his friendship which is one of the first books by internationally magic red and yellow pencil. Originally published acclaimed picture book creator, Anthony Browne is in 1989 this early work by a picture book master is available again in paperback. available again for a brand-new audience.

3+ years Walker Books • Picture Book 3+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9781406341621 PB 9781406341645 Arrp $14.99 • NZrrp $16.99 Arrp $14.99 • NZrrp $16.99

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland By and Anthony Browne A dazzling anniversary edition of Lewis Carroll’s classic story.

The story of Alice and her adventures in Wonderland has enthralled generations of children since it was first published in 1865. Lewis Carroll’s timeless masterpiece, now 150 years old, is richly visual in its telling and in this beautiful anniversary edition, Anthony Browne’s dazzling illustrations are perfectly paired with the surreal quality of Carroll’s writing, making this a book to treasure.

5+ years Walker Books • Picture Book HB 9781406361575 Arrp $27.99 • NZrrp $29.99 PB 9781406370706 Arrp $17.99 • NZrrp $19.99

WALK ERE BOOKS Changes Frida and Bear By Anthony Browne By Anthony Browne and Hanne Bartholin

The fairy-tale adventure of a little white bear Learn to play the shape game! and his magic pencil. Frida and Bear both love to draw – but what? First, Bear is walking through a deep dark forest when he Frida draws a shape. Bear adds to it and turns it into meets a hungry-looking wolf, a giant, a scary witch a picture. Then Bear draws a shape for Frida as the and a family of three bears. With each encounter, game begins again. Anthony Browne and Hanne Bear draws his way out of danger with the help of his Bartholin celebrate the power of imagination and the magic red and yellow pencil. Originally published importance of creativity in this delightful picture book. in 1989 this early work by a picture book master is available again for a brand-new audience.

3+ years Walker Books • Picture Book HB 9781406353990 5+ years Walker Books • Picture Book Arrp $24.99 • NZrrp $27.99 PB 9781406313390 HB 9781406365573 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $19.99 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99 Gorilla By Anthony Browne Celebrate 30 years of the classic award-winning picture book in this stunning new edition.

Hannah loves gorillas but has never seen one. Her father’s too busy to take her to the zoo – or for anything else come to that. For her birthday, Hannah asks her father for a gorilla – but is disappointed when she discovers that the gorilla she’s got is just a toy one. But then something extraordinary happens ... the toy turns into a real gorilla, who puts on her father’s hat and coat and takes her off for a magical visit to the zoo...

5+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9781406352337 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99 Big Book 9780744578478 Arrp $44.99 • NZrrp $47.99 Hansel and Gretel How Do You Feel? By Anthony Browne By Anthony Browne A retelling of this famous, dark fairytale from A book about feelings, for the very young award-winning author-illustrator Anthony child. Browne. How do you feel? Sometimes you feel happy, Hansel and Gretel is perhaps the darkest and greatest of sometimes sad. Sometimes you even feel surprised. the fairytales from the Brothers Grimm. This extraordinary Supreme artist and Children’s Laureate Anthony book brings the classic childhood tale to a new Browne brings all his understanding and skill to bear generation courtesy of one of the world’s greatest picture in this exploration of emotion for very young children. book artists, Hans Christian Andersen Award-winner This book will reassure and help them understand Anthony Browne. how they feel, using simple words and pictures. Every parent can feel “confident” that this is the perfect book.

3+ years Walker Books • Picture Book 2+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9781406318524 PB 9781406338515 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $19.99 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $19.99 I Like Books Into the Forest By Anthony Browne By Anthony Browne Who better than Anthony Browne – and one of A shortcut through the forest to Grandma’s his most personable chimps – to celebrate all house produces some eerie moments – and the fun to be found in the world of books? some oddly familiar characters – in a strikingly illustrated tale about facing fears. Do you like books? Funny books or fairy tales? Scary books or song books? Books about dinosaurs One night a boy is woken by a terrible sound. A storm or pirates or ABCs? This simple, inviting ode to is breaking, lightning flashing across the sky. In the the pleasures of reading stars an obliging chimp morning Dad is gone and Mum doesn’t seem to know sampling books of all sizes and shapes, vividly and when he’ll be back. The next day Mum asks her son humorously rendered in Anthony Browne’s crisp, to take a cake to his sick grandma. “Don’t go into polished style. the forest,” she warns. “Go the long way round.” But, for the first time, the boy chooses to take the path into the forest, where he meets a variety of fairy tale characters.

2+ years Walker Books • Picture Book 5+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9780744598575 PB 9781844285594 Arrp $14.99 • NZrrp $15.99 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99

WALK ERE BOOKS Little Beauty Look What I’ve Got! By Anthony Browne By Anthony Browne The heart-warming tale of a gorilla and his tiny A new edition of the master illustrator’s story friend, from the master picturebook-maker. of a show-off getting his come-uppance.

A very special gorilla is taught a very special skill: Jeremy, it seems, has everything: a new bicycle, sign language. He appears to have everything he a pirate outfit, an enormous bag of lollipops. But needs, but one day he signs that he is sad and needs he won’t share anything with Sam. Could it be, a friend. His keepers bring him a tiny cat called though, that Sam has something far more valuable? Beauty and the two of them become inseparable. But This stunning book is filled with visual jokes and a when the gorilla gets angry and causes damage to message to inspire. the TV, will his keepers think him unfit to be friends with such a small, defenceless animal? Not if Beauty can think fast and prove what a special friendship they share...

3+ years Walker Books • Picture Book 5+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9781406319309 PB 9781406326253 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $19.99 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99 One Gorilla: A Counting Book By Anthony Browne

Count from one to ten with apes and primates.

One gorilla, two orang-utangs and three chimpanzees. Explore the family of primates and learn to count from one to ten with former Children’s Laureate in this exquisite picture book for the youngest of children. With all the colour and drama of the natural world, Anthony Browne’s detailed depictions of monkeys and apes bring a new depth to first numbers and convey an important message to us all.

3+ years Walker Books • Picture Book HB 9781406325799 Arrp $24.99 • NZrrp $27.99 PB 9781406345339 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99 Silly Billy By Anthony Browne An atmospheric exploration of childhood worries and how to overcome them, by the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Medal Winner.

Billy is a bit of a worrier. He worries about hats and shoes. He worries about clouds and rain and giant birds. Most of all he worries about staying at other people’s houses. His mum and dad try to help, but still Billy worries ... until a visit to his grandma’s shows him how to overcome his fears with the aid of his imagination – and some tiny worry dolls.

4+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9781406305760 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99 Piggybook The Little Bear Book By Anthony Browne By Anthony Browne A stunning new edition of one of Anthony An animal adventure for the little white bear Browne’s best-loved picture book stories. and his magic pencil.

Mr Piggott and his two sons behave like pigs to poor As bear strolls through the forest when he meets a Mrs Piggott – until, finally, she walks out. Left to fend for lonely gorilla, a noisy crocodile, a lion and even an themselves, the male Piggotts undergo some curious elephant. They all look like they need something, so changes! bear steps in to save the day using his magic red and yellow pencil to draw just what they were looking for. Originally published in 1988 this early work by a picture book master is available again for a brand- new audience.

4+ years Walker Books • Picture Book 3+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9781406313284 PB 9781406341638 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99 Arrp $14.99 • NZrrp $16.99

WALK ERE BOOKS Through the Magic Mirror The Tunnel By Anthony Browne By Anthony Browne A new edition of master illustrator Anthony Anthony Browne is at his most brilliant in Browne’s first book, full of visual surprises. a new edition of this profound picture book about sibling relations. Toby is fed up. Fed up with books, fed up with toys, fed up with everything. But when he walks through Once upon a time there lived a brother and sister who the magic mirror, things are amazingly different. Toby were complete opposites and constantly fought and can hardly believe his eyes! Anthony Browne’s first argued. One day they discovered the tunnel. The boy book is full of the surreal details and visual humour goes through it at once, dismissing his sister’s fears. that have made him one of the world’s most popular When he doesn’t return his sister has to pluck up the and acclaimed picture book artists. courage to go through the tunnel too. She finds her brother in a mysterious forest where he has been turned to stone...

4+ years Walker Books • Picture Book 4+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9781406326284 PB 9781406313291 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99 Willy the Champ Willy the Dreamer By Anthony Browne By Anthony Browne Join Willy as he takes on the big bad bully! A stunning Willy book with spectacular, surreal paintings – by one of the most Willy is different. He likes to read books and listen acclaimed of all picture book artists. to music; he’s no good at sports, although he tries; and wherever he goes he gets laughed at. But when Willy loves to dream. He dreams that he’s a film he’s threatened by the horrible Buster Nose he really star, a sumo wrestler, a ballet dancer, a painter, an comes into his own. explorer, a famous writer, a scuba diver… Sometimes he dreams that he can’t run but he can fly. Willy’s dreamland is a gallery of amazing and magical pictures, each one magnificently executed and packed with bananas and slyly surreal details that cannot fail to intrigue and delight. The pictures pay homage to famous paintings by the likes of Dali, Magritte and Henri Rousseau, as well as film and book characters and much more.

5+ years Walker Books • Picture Book 5+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9781406318739 PB 9781406313574 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $19.99 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $19.99 Willy the Wimp Willy’s Pictures By Anthony Browne By Anthony Browne Celebrate the 30th birthday of this classic Hugely entertaining and informative – a unique story about a gentle chimp fed up of being art history lesson given by internationally bullied. acclaimed children’s book illustrator.

Willy wouldn’t hurt a fly – he even apologises when Willy’s pictures look like great works of art, but not quite someone hits him. The suburban gorillas call him … for Willy has added himself and his friends to famous Willy the Wimp. Then, one day, Willy answers a body- paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Vermeer, building advert ... with hilarious results! Celebrate Manet and many more. Delight in his dazzling portfolio 30 years of the classic picture book in this special then open the fold-out pages to see the original anniversary edition by multiple-award-winner Anthony pictures and learn about the artists who painted them. Browne. As Willy knows, every picture tells a story…

5+ years Walker Books • Picture Book 5+ years Walker Books • Picture Book PB 9781406356410 PB 9781406313567 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $19.99 Willy’s Stories By Anthony Browne Where will Willy’s imagination take him next?

A fantastical celebration of stories and the imagination. Once a week, Willy walks through an ordinary-looking set of doors and straight into an adventure – an adventure inspired by a beloved classic of children’s literature, from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to The Wind in the Willows. Where will those doors take him today: to a mysterious desert island with footprints in the sand; down a deep, dark rabbit hole full of curious objects; or perhaps on board a pirate ship, face to face with Captain Hook? Wherever he ends up, Willy’s journeys begin when he walks through those inviting doors...

4+ years Walker Books • Picture Book HB 9781406351613 Arrp $24.99 • NZrrp $27.99 PB 9781406360899 Arrp $16.99 • NZrrp $18.99

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