Leapfrog: Little Joe's Horse Race

Author: Tim Archbold Andy Blackford
Publisher: Hachette Children's Books
Category: Funny Books for Kids, School Stories, English Language: Reading Schemes
Book Format: Paperback

Brightly illustrated early reading books by top authors and illustrators, perfect for newly independent readers.


After leaving Oxford with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics, Andy disappointed nearly everyone by joining a rock band.

The band disappointed the record buying public and he moved to Amsterdam where he was employed to realise the questionable ambitions of visiting American musicians.

He returned to London to become a music publisher and then a professional skateboarder.

His friend the editor Susan Hill encouraged him to write and there followed a number of books on implausibly disparate subjects.

He won the Independent/Scholastic Children's Story of the Year competition with Spare Bear, which involved drinking champagne with Andrew Marr (the awards ceremony, not the story).

Since then he has written over twenty titles, mainly for younger children and including the Little Joe trilogy.

He is also the author of books on scuba diving and ultra-marathon running, as well as a (not very) grown-up novel, Accrual World.

However, his most likely qualification for immortality so far is the advertising jingle, Um Bongo, Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo.

Andy invented the NatWest Piggies, has run across the Sahara Desert, ridden horses through the Atlas Mountains and these days tries to suppress an unhealthy interest in fast motorcycles.

He is a mitra with the Triratna Buddhist Community, teaching meditation to prisoners in a high-security prison.

He lives in the country with his wife, an English teacher, and their daughter.

About Andy Blackford
After leaving Oxford with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics, Andy disappointed nearly everyone by joining a rock band.
The band disappointed the record buying public and he moved to Amsterdam where he was employed to realise the questionable ambitions of visiting American musicians.
He returned to London to become a music publisher and then a professional skateboarder.
His friend the editor Susan Hill encouraged him to write and there followed a number of books on implausibly disparate subjects.
He won the Independent/Scholastic Children`s Story of the Year competition with Spare Bear, which involved drinking champagne with Andrew Marr `the awards ceremony, not the story`.
Since then he has written over twenty titles, mainly for younger children and including the Little Joe trilogy.
He is also the author of books on scuba diving and ultra-marathon running, as well as a `not very` grown-up novel, Accrual World.
However, his most likely qualification for immortality so far is the advertising jingle, Um Bongo, Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo.
Andy invented the NatWest Piggies, has run across the Sahara Desert, ridden horses through the Atlas Mountains and these days tries to suppress an unhealthy interest in fast motorcycles.
He is a mitra with the Triratna Buddhist Community, teaching meditation to prisoners in a high-security prison.
He lives in the country with his wife, an English teacher, and their daughter.

(BK-9781445116198)

SKU BK-9781445116198
Barcode # 9781445116198
Brand Hachette Children's Books
Artist / Author Tim Archbold Andy Blackford
Shipping Weight 0.0800kg
Shipping Width 0.170m
Shipping Height 0.150m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 14.800m
Assembled Height 16.900m
Assembled Width 20.000m
Type Paperback

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