A Close Call

by Amanda Harvey

A nanny is sleeping with a baby on her lap when an old woman comes into the room, snatches the child and whisks it away into the night. This cautionary tale was the winner of the 1989 Macmillan Prize for a Children's Picture Book and the 1991 Mother Goose Award.

32 pages, Hardcover

Published May 25, 1990

About the author

Amanda Hall is a British children's book author and illustrator. Born in 1955, her first book, A Close Call, was published in 1990, and won the 1991 Mother Goose Award. She went on to write and/or illustrate more than thirty more books.