Five Minutes' Peace (Large Family)

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Family life is beautifully observed in this warm and funny modern classic from Jill Murphy, one of Britain’s most treasured author-illustrators. Mrs Large stacks a tray with several items she likes and tries to go upstairs for a bath and ‘five minutes peace’ from the family. Mum is no sooner enjoying the peace when one by one the children barge into the bathroom to play instruments and recite stories and just create havoc in general. This engaging picture book, with delightful canine characters, explores difficult emotions with young children, helping them to develop empathy and emotional awareness.

She fills herself a foamy bubble-bath and takes in a tray of her favourite breakfast – but finds her peace is to be very short-lived. Children will enjoy delving into the life and laughter of the Large family in this story, and might even develop some empathy for their own parents in the process!She wrote and illustrated her first book, the bestselling The Worst Witch, while still only eighteen, and went on to create the award-winning Large family series, which has sold over ten million copies worldwide and been adapted for television.

Your framed print will arrive with D-rings and cord already attached, read y to hang right out of the box.But there’s never a dull moment with the Larges, and it soon becomes clear that mum’s quiet time is to be very short-lived!

We are also settling our little one into nursery who is finally settling after 11 months of going there! Jill Murphy’s The Large Family series of books comprise wonderfully warm and relatable stories, Murphy’s acute observation of family life delighting both children and adults alike.These reports give a complete break-down of everything in the book, so you'll know just how clean it is or isn't.