Bouncing Buffalo

by Posy Simmonds

Polly and Jack's parents can't afford to run their antique shop any more and cranky Mr Fowler decides he's going to convert it into a restaurant. The children are very upset over parting with the angry buffalo and the sad bear, but they are saved at the last moment in the most unusual way.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of both children's books and graphic novels. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the series Gemma Bovery (2000) and Tamara Drewe (2005–06), both later published as books. Her style gently satirises the English middle classes and in particular those of a literary bent. Both of the published books feature a "doomed heroine", much in the style of the 18th- and 19th-century gothic romantic novel, to which they often allude, but with an ironic, modernist slant.