Marching Band

Illustrated by Kate Hindley

Published by Nosy Crow

Who wants to join the marching band? EVERYONE is welcome in this energetic, anarchic adventure with artwork by award-winning Littlest Yak illustrator Kate Hindley.

Kate Hindley's picture books have sold over 180,000 copies and have won awards including the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award, and Oscar's Book Prize.

This band gets bigger and louder on every page! Watch out for wrecking balls on the building site, tigers roaring in the jungle and yetis on the mountain. Everyone wants to join the fun . . . even aliens in outer space! Then it's time to zoom back home, wishing everyone goodnight, one by one.

  • Addictive rhyming text and fun repeated words.

  • Wind-down to bedtime at the end of the story.

  • Funny detailed scenes including a building site, a beach, a jungle and outer space.

  • Encourages counting skills - count all 10 members of the marching band!

Get ready to stomp your feet and march along in time with the band, and have lots of adventures and laughs along the way!

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Illustrator

Kate Hindley is an award-winning children's book illustrator.

She studied illustration at Falmouth, and went on to work as a surface pattern designer in Northampton.

She has worked with authors including Lu Fraser, Simon Philip, Miranda Hart, and Santa Montefiore. She has also written her own board book series Treacle Street, published by Simon & Schuster.

Her first book The Great Snortle Hunt, written by Claire Freedman was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal back in 2012. Since then her work has won awards including the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award, and Oscar's Book Prize.

Kate is currently living in the Midlands with her son and husband.​​​​​​​

Praise

Reviews

“Hindley’s fully realized cartoons draw out the conceit’s humor via googly-eyed characters who lug their myriad instruments across snow and stars alike. It’s a raucous jaunt that yields fresh reasons for appreciation across repeated reads.” —Publisher’s Weekly

“From the very first page young readers are engaged in the story with rhyming text that will make them want to partake in the marching band's antics. There are repetitive phrases that truly make this a fun book to read aloud.” —YA Books Central

“Rhythmic language transports the reader right into the heart of this story, as we follow a marching band on an adventure through the town, to the zoo, into space, and beyond. Left-right, left-right go their feet, as we hear sounds from roaring tigers and wrecking balls, exciting and involving children throughout.” —PA Media

“This is a joyful picture and so much fun – counting, stomping, marching up and down.  Kael Tudor and Kate Hindley make for a brilliant partnership of rhyming words and pictures.” —Bookwagon

“Bouncy rhyming and repetitive text, and fabulous illustrations with loads to look at - it’s just really good, fun for storytime. A must have.” —Peters

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