Books with author Babette Cole

Locked up for growing a dangerous vegetable, Grandad lands in a lot of trouble. The endearingly loony stories from Babette Cole have now been published in a new miniature format. As always, her vibrant, outrageously funny depictions will have kids—and parents—roaring with laughter. Winner of the prestigious Kurt Maschler Award, Babette Cole is the author of such favorites as The Hairy Book, The Slimy Book, Dr. Dog, Princess Smartypants, and The Bad Good Book of Manners.

Penny Simms is pony-mad and is thrilled when she wins a scholarship to Fetlocks Hall, an equestrian boarding school. But Fetlocks Hall is no ordinary school - besides schoolwork and riding lessons, Penny has the opportunity to acquire secret knowledge about horses as well as find out about the magical unicorn world of Equitopia. Soon she is caught up in a desperate struggle to help the unicorns combat a terrible plot by the evil Devlipeds, who are plotting to overthrow them. Is Penny the Unicorn Princess whose arrival is predicted by the King of the Unicorns? Can she defeat the Devlipeds and save the unicorns and the pony world?

The trouble with Mom is that she just isn't like other moms. Her hats are decorated with snakes and mice, and she flies her son to school on a broomstick. No wonder she doesn't get along with the other parents. Will Mom's special talents ever come in handy?"Well-meaning lovable Mom is a witch, and just can't help turning people into toads and doing other embarrassing things.... A truly funny idea carried out in delightfully inventive pictures". -- The New Yorker

Babette Cole's riotously funny picture book, Princess Smartypants. Princess Smartypants does not want to get married. She enjoys being a Ms. But being a rich and pretty princess means that all the princes want her to be their Mrs. Find out how Princess Smartypants fights to preserve her independence in this hilarious fairy-tale-with-a-difference. 'Babette Cole is ... funny, unrestricted and totally unforgettable' Independent on Sunday. Babette Cole graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and has been a writer and illustrater ever since. She has produced animated storyboards for the BBC, illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette won The Kurt Maschler Prize for DROP DEAD!. She lives in Lincolnshire with a menagerie of animals. Other books by Babette Cole: Princess Smartypants; Long Live Princess Smartypants; Prince Cinders; Bad Habits!; Princess Smartypants Breaks the Rules!; Doctor Dog; The Smelly Book; The Hairy Book; The Slimy Book; The Silly Book; Drop Dead; Nungu and the Hoppopotamus

Babette Cole, whose work has been hailed by Parents magazine as "outrageously zany," turns ageism on its ear in this hilariously fresh look at the human life cycle. Two thoroughly modern grandparents tell their life stories to their skeptical grandchildren, and along the way debunk the myth that kids have a monopoly on fun and living dangerously. From childhood on through teenage angst and college dares, to young love and parenthood, these spunky octogenarians have seen and done it all. And they're not afraid of what the future holds. Blithely suggesting the possibility of reincarnation, they joke "we might be recycled as anything at all!" Cole combines a spare text with wickedly funny illustrations to create an utterly novel approach to the process of growing up and growing old. An ideal book for kids and grandparents to share. Drop dead, indeed!