The Trouble with Oscar
Oscar is rude and grumpy and wees in the bath and sleeps in my bed. Trouble is, he’s a polar bear cub and needs to get back to the Frozen Arctic: And I’m the only one who can help him.
“Fresh, fast, funny and thoughtful. A delight.” Pippa Goodhart
The Trouble with Oscar… a peak inside the pages
The Trouble with Oscar… a peak inside the pages
The Five Flamingo Book Series
The Mud Monster
The Mud Monster is a funny and delightful story about helping each other, overcoming our imaginary fears – and bathtime!
The Carnivorous Crocodile
The Carnivorous Crocodile won’t share the waterhole… a lesson the Five Flamingo’s are happy to help him learn!
The Yum Yum Tree
Baby monkey has gone up the Yum Yum Tree and won’t come down – can the Five Flamingo’s get back to his mum?
The Fussy Flamingo
The Fussy Flamingo doesn’t like her own food… she visits other animals to see what they eat – including the Carnivorous Crocodile!
The Five Flamingo Book Series
The Mud Monster
The Mud Monster is a funny and delightful story about helping each other, overcoming our imaginary fears – and bath time!
The Carnivorous Crocodile
The Carnivorous Crocodile won’t share the waterhole… a lesson the Five Flamingo’s are happy to help him learn!
The Yum Yum Tree
Baby monkey has gone up the Yum Yum Tree and won’t come down – can the Five Flamingo’s get back to his mum?
The Fussy Flamingo
The Fussy Flamingo doesn’t like her own food… she visits other animals to see what they eat – including the Carnivorous Crocodile!
Supporting Conservation
All the author royalties from the sale of the four books in the Five Flamingo series go towards supporting wildlife habitat conservation projects.
We are very proud to announce that proceeds from The Five Flamingo books have part-funded 13,000 tree seedlings in Tanzania! We hope that in the future our Five Flamingo book series will go on to fund even more wildlife conservation projects.
Supporting Conservation
All the author royalties from the sale of the four books in the Five Flamingo series go towards supporting wildlife habitat conservation projects.
We are very proud to announce that proceeds from The Five Flamingo books have part-funded 13,000 tree seedlings in Tanzania! We hope that in the future our Five Flamingo book series will go on to fund even more wildlife conservation projects.
Author
Jonnie Wild
Jonnie has always wanted to be a writer having written stories for his own children for more than 30 years. It was the combination of his passion for conservation and playing with his grandchildren that inspired his first book ‘The Carnivorous Crocodile.’ He has a passion for conservation which started in the 1980’s when his two children inspired him to get involved.
They’d been upset after an episode of Blue Peter which had shown the deliberate burning of an area of rainforest in Africa. Jonnie promised them that if they planted one tree, he would plant 999,999 and replace the forest. At the time, Jonnie was chief executive of the family firm, Bettys and Taylors. And so in 1990 he and the company launched Trees For Life, pledging to plant a million trees.
Since retiring conservation has pretty much taken over his life. He works closely with The United Bank of Carbon, a collaboration with scientists at the University of Leeds where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2011 for environmental and community work. He donates all his profits from the Five Flamingo books to wildlife conservation project Reforest Africa.
Illustrator
Brita Granstrom
Brita Granström has been creating children’s books for twenty-five years. She has pioneered Picture Book Non-Fiction since 1995 and her first book ‘The World Is Full of Babies’ (Watts), was the first non-fiction title to win the Smarties Silver Prize.
Since then she has won the Times Education Supplement Award for What’s Under The Bed? (Watts), received five Royal Society Junior Science Book prizes and in 2014 won the English Association Award for the fifth time with Charlie’s War Illustrated published by Watts. Tail-End Charlie (Frances Lincoln) and Books! Books! Books! (Otter Barry books) were nominated for Carnegie Medals and she has been nominated twice for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award the world’s largest literary award.
In 2020 together with her partner Mick Manning she was presented with the SLA Outstanding Contribution to Information Books Award. Paul Rockett, Publisher for Franklin Watts and Wayland, said of her work ‘…warm, charming, beautiful, moving, often bringing in personal insights and experiences to topics which adds a big dose of humanity. The relationship between the artwork and the text is impeccable, and feels inseparable…’
Brita is represented by Lucy Juckes at Jenny Brown Associates.
Author
Jonnie Wild
Jonnie has always wanted to be a writer having written stories for his own children for more than 30 years. It was the combination of his passion for conservation and playing with his grandchildren that inspired his first book ‘The Carnivorous Crocodile.’ He has a passion for conservation which started in the 1980’s when his two children inspired him to get involved.
They’d been upset after an episode of Blue Peter which had shown the deliberate burning of an area of rainforest in Africa. Jonnie promised them that if they planted one tree, he would plant 999,999 and replace the forest. At the time, Jonnie was chief executive of the family firm, Bettys and Taylors. And so in 1990 he and the company launched Trees For Life, pledging to plant a million trees.
Since retiring conservation has pretty much taken over his life. He works closely with The United Bank of Carbon, a collaboration with scientists at the University of Leeds where he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2011 for environmental and community work. He donates all his profits from the Five Flamingo books to wildlife conservation project Reforest Africa.
Illustrator
Brita Granstrom
Brita Granström has been creating children’s books for twenty-five years. She has pioneered Picture Book Non-Fiction since 1995 and her first book ‘The World Is Full of Babies’ (Watts), was the first non-fiction title to win the Smarties Silver Prize.
Since then she has won the Times Education Supplement Award for What’s Under The Bed? (Watts), received five Royal Society Junior Science Book prizes and in 2014 won the English Association Award for the fifth time with Charlie’s War Illustrated published by Watts. Tail-End Charlie (Frances Lincoln) and Books! Books! Books! (Otter Barry books) were nominated for Carnegie Medals and she has been nominated twice for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award the world’s largest literary award.
In 2020 together with her partner Mick Manning she was presented with the SLA Outstanding Contribution to Information Books Award. Paul Rockett, Publisher for Franklin Watts and Wayland, said of her work ‘…warm, charming, beautiful, moving, often bringing in personal insights and experiences to topics which adds a big dose of humanity. The relationship between the artwork and the text is impeccable, and feels inseparable…’
Brita is represented by Lucy Juckes at Jenny Brown Associates.