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Of course, everything is far more exciting, Happy to have some company, he asks Joanna to tell him a story – entertaining and tasty after bedtime! Shoham Smith the story of King Gub-Gub who rules from his bed and never had is an award-winning author and Einat Tsarfati is a 250 x 220 / 48 pages to get up. talented writer and illustrator. A touching story about friendship, care, a bowl or two of soup and “Tsarfati’s lively illustrations fill in Smith’s open-ended rhyming couplets by lots of imagination as the best cures for a bad cold. Hilit Blum is an providing witty visual punch lines and capture Nina’s boundless energy and impish editor and a poet. Kinneret Gildar graduated in 2010 from the Neri antics with a minimal color palette. They are New Yorker–stylish, depicting a Bloomfield Academy of Design and Education and Jo, Pepper and white family that looks delightfully real, pot bellies and all.” Kirkus Review the Big Sleep is the third picture book she has illustrated. 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