Edmund, the Elephant who Forgot/ Billy and the Balloons

from Salariya Rights Catalogue 2022

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Edmund, the Elephant who Forgot

‘Elephants always remember. Elephants don’t get it wrong. Elephants always remember. As long as they sing this song!’ Edmund is a very forgetful elephant. When he’s sent to the shops to fetch some things he soon finds that he can’t remember what he was meant to buy, and soon his purchases are getting sillier and sillier. Children will laugh along with this ever-so-slightly surreal, inventive and very funny story from debut author, Kate Dalgleish.

‘And when everyone saw that only tiny Billy was holding the balloons, they were really scared SILLY! ‘Hold Tight, Billy!’ his worried daddy cried. So Billy held tight and had a magic ride.’

Billy is a young boy who finds himself floating away through the clouds when he holds a bunch of balloons. Different characters, human and animal, scramble to save Billy, but soon find themselves along for the ride. Will Billy be able to return to Earth and will he be able to use the balloons to help Santa Claus and his tired reindeer to deliver their presents on Christmas Eve? Billy and the Balloons is a festive treat with serious rereadability that children and adults can enjoy together.

• 265 x 260 mm • 32pp • Interest 3+ • Fold-out gatefold

Kate Dalgleish / Isobel Lundie