Purple Eyes

by Steve Augarde

Turn the wheels and lift the flaps for learning fun with Silly Monster!

Young children are sure to enjoy these unique lift-the-flap and turn-the-wheel board books that feature four different topics essential to early numbers, colors, opposites, and shapes. Colorfully engaging illustrations pose questions about familiar objects in a youngster’s life. By turning the wheel and lifting the flaps, young learners will discover the right answers and giggle and the wrong ones.
In Purple Hat, preschoolers have fun learning about colors by matching each pair of eyes to its animal. Then, they can lift the flaps to find a hidden surprise.

8 pages, Hardcover

First published March 29, 2001

About the author

I began writing children's books when I was at art college, which means that I’ve spent over thirty years as a children's author. Must be nearly time to grow up. About eighty titles published to date, I think. These include story books and pop-ups for younger readers, as well as my more recent novels for older children. I'm also an illustrator and paper-engineer, and you can see examples of this type of work around the site.

Sometimes I provide the paper engineering for pop-up books by other artists and children's authors - Jan Pienkowski, for example, Emma Chichester-Clark and Damien Hirst.

Finally I'm a semi-pro musician, playing mostly jazz. I provided the music and artwork for two BBC children's television series of Bump the elephant. Mind you, that was ages ago, and so it's high time somebody sampled it for a dance track and made me a fortune.

My first major work for older children was The Touchstone Trilogy, completed in January 2008, the three titles being The Various, Celandine and Winter Wood. The Various was an award winner in The Nestle Smarties Book Prize 2003. Both Celandine and Winter Wood have been nominated for the Carnegie Medal.