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In this sweet, thoughtful story, a little boy feels unhappy when he compares himself to his classmates. But he comes to realize there's a lot more to a person than just what they're good at. There are hundreds of things that make you YOU - from being able to touch your nose with your tongue to your love of riding a bike, even if you are a bit wobbly. Just like all the beautiful different pebbles he finds on the beach, each person has something that makes them wonderful. And that's a thing to celebrate. For children who begin to compare themselves to others around them, this is reassuring story will remind them to be happy just being themselves.
Growing up on the Wirral and in Germany, Anna wrote plays about talking animals, and stories about naughty children, and drew on every available surface. After school, she did an Art Foundation course, then a degree in German Literature and Philosophy at Oxford University. In 1998 she found her perfect job at Usborne in London, writing about everything from curious penguins to trips to the Moon.
Åsa Gilland is a Swedish illustrator living in Jakarta, Indonesia with her family and cats in a little house beneath a gigantic bougainvillea tree. She studied interior design at Accademia Italiana Moda in Florence and spent many years as a graphic designer before pursuing her love for illustration and picture books. She works in a combination of traditional and digital media, drawing inspiration from the mixture of cultures in the world around her. Her children's book characters reflect the rich diversity of her own lived experience. She loves history, patterns and drawing people.