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Children's Picture Book
Elsie-Babe
The story of a naughty tooth fairy who likes to keep the teeth she's collected!
Will she learn to share?
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Cuddle up with your child and read to see what happens when
Elsie-Babe encounters the Fairy King!
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Elsie-Babe is now available to pre-order!
Pre-orders end on 19th March
Orders will be posted on 15th April 2024
We are incredibly excited to share with you that Elsie-Babe is available to pre-order. It has been a wonderful project to work on and we can't wait for you to see the book and share it with your children!
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We are proud to be self-publishing Elsie-Babe so that we have control of how the book will look and feel when it is in your hands. We hope it will be a book for you to cherish and one that your child will love coming back to over and over again.
When you sign up for emails about Elsie-Babe, you will receive a free colouring sheet of Elsie-Babe's World that you and your children can enjoy colouring in together! You will also receive a few emails with exclusive behind the scenes details on the making of the book and it's characters! Then when your book is ready to be printed, I will email you to let you know and you can be one of the very first to be reading this book.
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The book won't be sent out to you immediately, this will be the end of February. We are only planning a limited run of the book, so to make sure you don't miss out on this very special book, be sure to pre-order your very own copy!
Meet the Author
Michele Fudge
Elsie-Babe was written and published as a poem, about a naughty tooth fairy. Michele was inspired to write Elsie-Babe in 1997 for her daughter, who at the time was two years old. The character design is loosely based on her as a baby!
Meet the Illustrator
Nicola Ellen
'My work is hugely inspired by nature and I sketch wherever I go. These sketches form the beginnings of my illustrations, many of which feature in Elsie-Babe. My inspiration for character expressions and movements come from my daughter, who, though not naughty, can be very cheeky indeed!'
You can read more about the process of Elsie-Babe and the self-publishing experience we had, in these blog posts;
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Self-Publishing a Children's Book
What I Learned from Self-Publishing a Children's Book
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