UK Writer and Illustrator
Martha Mumford, illustrated by Ada Grey
Shhh! Don’t Wake the Royal Baby
Bloomsbury 2013
$18.99pb 32 pages
ISBN 978 1 4088 4463 2
Themes: Royal family/ Spoofs
The Royal Baby is home at the palace and everyone looks
delighted - the Queen, the parents,
the corgis, the relatives - including Red Haired Harry. There is just one
problem though – the Royal Baby (gender at this stage not given) simply will
not settle to sleep and fills the air with loud cries of protest.
Everything is tried – the Queen takes him up in a plane and floats to
earth with him under a large parachute, his father give him a helicopter trip, his
mother rocks him gently. Although there is no real resolution to the story, it is
so charmingly told and illustrated that even the most ardent Over-The-Royal-Baby-Protesters
will smile in appreciation.
Preschool up/ Age 4 up
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