Words for the Wounded’s Award winning children’s picture book  author Richard Middleton has produced another winner: Big Teeth.

Big Teeth carries  a different pictorial style to his enormously successful  Little Hoglet’s Egg Race,  in that Middleton has swung into big, bold and broad stroked illustrations. A style that is  almost audacious and mirrors the massive, and probably misplaced  fear that consumes Tiny Shrew when she has to chase after her lunch which does a bunk into Scary Wood.

Frost loved the whole vision of this book. Tiny Shrew’s hair looked rather like mine when in a rush, higgledy piggledy, and indeed she’s in a rush.

Scared though she is, Tiny Shrew has to decide whether to  face her fears and follow her lunch, or go hungry. Once in pursuit she encounters Scary Fox, Scary Bear and Scary Wolf who all have BIG TEETH. But when Tiny Shrew discovers the amazing power of her own smile, she is able to face down the scary trio with new confidence.

It really is a useful book for parents to read with their young children, a book  which bolsters confidence, and is  inspiring,and  is such fun.

A vibrantly illustrated story  for younger children. From the author of the ‘Little Hoglet’ books and ‘The Stinky Hippobottomus’.

Big Teeth by Richard Middleton. Paperback. Amazon. £3.99