Product Description

Mr and Mrs Large are getting ready for the office dinner-dance, but with Lester, Laura, Luke and the baby around, they'll be lucky to get out of the house all in one piece!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #857915 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Board book
• 24 pages

Review
"The appeal to children is immediate with the wonderfully naughty children and brilliantly clever character illustrations." Books for Keeps; "Delectably droll and rumbustious." The Daily Mail; "Just as delightful as Five Minutes' Peace... The drawings are full of lovely touches." Child Education

About the Author
Jill Murphy is one of this country's best-known author/illustrators. She wrote and illustrated her first book, The Worst Witch, while still only eighteen. Since then, she has produced many bestselling titles, including three more Worst Witch stories, as well as the picture books Peace At Last, The Last Noo-noo (Winner of the Smarties Book Prize 0-5 Category) and it's companion, All for One. Five Minutes' Peace won the Best Books for Babies Award and All in One Piece and A Quiet Night In were both shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. All four Large family titles are now available bound together in hardback as The Large Family Collection. Jill lives in Bodmin, Cornwall.

Customer Reviews

St. Louis children love reading Jill Murphy's books.
We liked All in One Piece Because when Mrs Large thought she was all in one piece, she had paint all on her dress where she sat in the paintbox

Not the best Large Family story, but excellent all the same
Jill Murphy really hit a home run when she created the Large Family. Larger than life, twice as lovable, this family of elephants has more human characteristics than most, and the clever blend of simple and sophisticated humour means the adults enjoy reading them as much as the kids!

This isn't the best in the series, but it's still very good. If you don't have any of these books, I would recommend starting with Five Minutes' Peace and a Quiet Night In, as these two are hilarious. If you have both of those, then this one is as good as the others to follow up.

Jill Murphy, please write some more of these books! Our whole family (parents and kids) love them!