The Baby Swap

Description

A jealous big sister learns a very loving lesson in this warm and funny picture book about sibling rivalry, featuring charming text and nostalgic artwork. Caroline Crocodile is not thrilled with her baby brother. He drools. A lot. But all Mama Crocodile ever says is how GORGEOUS he is! And so Caroline ventures into a baby shop to swap out her brother. Unfortunately, the baby panda is a fussy eater, the giraffe is missing scales, and the piglet isn't green. Turns out, the best younger sibling around might just be her own yellow-eyed, sharp-clawed, drooling baby brother.

Jan Ormerod is an Australian-born author and illustrator whose work is published in more than 20 countries. Along with many other awards and honours, Ormerod's first picture book, Sunshine (1981), won the Mother Goose Award and was voted Australian Picture Book of the Year. She published more than 50 books in her lifetime; other notable titles included Moonlight, Maudie and Bear, Lizzie Nonsense, Water Witcher, and The Swap. Andrew Joyner is an Australian illustrator and cartoonist. In 2009 his first picture book was published, The Terrible Plop, written by Ursula Dubosarsky. which was shortlisted for multiple awards. In 2011, Andrew released his own series of books, All About Boris, a loveable and adventurous warthog. Along with his children's book work, Andrew illustrates regularly for newspapers and magazines, both locally and internationally.