Publisher's synopsis
Here is the story of the Terrible PLOP, with a bear and a rabbit, and a hop hop hop.
But what is the PLOP? And where does it hide?
Open the book and look inside . . .
‘Hilarious, original and energetic . . . ‘ The Sunday Age
From award-winning author Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrator Andrew Joyner comes an irresistible picture book about a little rabbit who learns that some things in life aren’t as scary as they seem. Based on a Tibetan myth, a sound in the forest sets all the animals running for their lives from the Terrible Plop. Children will be charmed by the wonderful zany energy of the illustrations and the rollicking rhyming story.
Illustrator
Click here to read more about Andrew Joyner.
Ursula Dubosarsky was born in Sydney and wanted to be a writer from the age of six. She is now the author of over 60 books for children and young adults. She has won many national prizes, including the NSW, Victorian, South Australian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award, and has been nominated for the international Hans Christian Anderson and Astrid Lindgren awards for children’s literature. Her books have been published widely across the world and translated into fourteen different languages.
Ursula was the Australian Children’s Laureate 2020–2021.
Photo by Vicki Skarratt, courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Andrew Joyner is an Australian illustrator and cartoonist. In 2009 his first picture book, The Terrible Plop, written by Ursula Dubosarsky, was published. The book was shortlisted for many awards, including the CBCA Book of the Year 2010 and the PM’s Literary Awards 2010. In 2013, Andrew illustrated Jan Ormerod’s The Swap, which won the 2014 CBCA Book of the Year, and has been translated into 14 languages. Andrew has achieved huge success in both Australia and overseas with his Little Hare titles — What’s the Matter, Aunty May, One Little Goat and Yobbos do Yoga — and, more recently with The Pink Hat, published by Penguin Random House. Along with his children’s book work, Andrew illustrates regularly for newspapers and magazines, both locally and internationally. He lives in Strathalbyn, South Australia, with his family and nineteen pets.
Photo courtesy of Hardie Grant Publishing
