National Trust: Annabelle and Flower (Paperback) - Em Lynas

A warm, funny picture book about the circle of life - with bright neon colours throughout! When a lonely cow called Annabelle finds a tiny flower one spring day, it brings a dance to her step and a smile to her moo.

A warm, funny picture book about the circle of life - with bright neon colours throughout!

When a lonely cow called Annabelle finds a tiny flower one spring day, it brings a dance to her step and a smile to her moo. Over time, the flower grows, blooms and changes colour, until one day autumn comes and blows all the petals away. Poor Annabelle is alone again, until spring returns and she finds a new flower . . . and another . . . and another!

Explores the four seasons and the circle of life

With bright, stylish artwork and cleverly designed typography

Features hopeful messages about friendship and the passing of time

Published in collaboration with the National Trust

From the author of The Cat and the Rat and the Hat, The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat and The Bear and the Hare and the Fair.

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About the Author

Em Lynas (Author)
Em Lynas is a children's author with a love of silly poetry, magic, dragons and folklore. Em has been a shelf stacker, a shoe shop assistant, a primary school teacher, a mum, an educational publisher and now, an author of funny books. She lives by the seaside on the North East coast with her husband, Geoff, and although she did have pets when her children lived at home; hamsters, guinea pigs, a rabbit and a jar of stick insects, she is currently petless.

Anuska Allepuz (Illustrator)
Anuska Allepuz grew up in Spain, where she studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca. She has enjoyed drawing and writing stories for as long as she can remember and her work is driven by a love of storytelling. In 2016, she graduated with distinction from the MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. She likes exploring texture and using mixed media, handmade stamps and stencilled shapes.

Anuska has worked as a full-time illustrator with publishers in Spain, Mexico and Brazil, and her illustrations have been selected for exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair, shortlisted for the AOI awards and Highly Commended in the Macmillan Prize. Some of her favourite things are drinking coffee with friends and playing chess.