This Lake is Fake! (#6 Rabbit and Bear) (HB)

Author(s): Julian Gough

Junior Fiction (5 - 8 years) | Bestsellers - MARCH

Gorgeously illustrated and with a classic feel, this is a brilliantly funny story of a rabbit and a bear ... and how friends can manage in a not-quite-perfect world. Ideal for readers moving on from picture books.


'A perfect animal double-act.' The Times, Book of the Week


Rabbit is fed up. Spring has come, but it's not as perfect as he hoped it would be. Bear thinks that if they work hard, they can improve things, a bit. But Rabbit has a MUCH better plan. He sets off across the lake in search of a perfect world ...


Crossing the water together, Rabbit and Bear learn many things, and discover that their perfect world may be closer at hand than Rabbit had thought.


Meet Rabbit and Bear in the classic series that has taken the world by storm: this is a story of hope, friendship, bad eyesight, and an entire island made of ... of ... wait ... is that chocolate? It looks like chocolate ...


'Rabbit's Bad Habits is a breath of fresh air in children's fiction, a laugh-out-loud story of rabbit and wolf and bear, of avalanches and snowmen. The sort of story that makes you want to send your children to bed early, so you can read it to them.' Neil Gaiman


Read all the Rabbit and Bear books: 1. Rabbit's Bad Habits 2. The Pest in the Nest 3. Attack of the Snack 4. A Bite in the Night 5. A Bad King is a Sad Thing 6. This Lake is Fake!

$30.00 NZD

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Julian Gough is a novelist, playwright, poet, musician and script-writer. He was born in London, grew up in Ireland and now lives in Berlin. Among many other things, Julian wrote the ending to MINECRAFT, the world's most successful computer game for children of all ages. He likes to drink coffee and steal pigs. Jim Field is an award-winning illustrator, character designer and animation director. He grew up in Farnborough, worked in London and now lives in Paris. His first picture book, CATS AHOY!, written by Peter Bently, won the BookTrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He is perhaps best known for drawing frogs on logs in the bestselling OI FROG! He likes playing the guitar and drinking coffee.

General Fields

  • : 9781444947571
  • : Hachette Children's Group
  • : Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • : 0.31
  • : 01 March 2024
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Julian Gough
  • : Hardback
  • : Jim Field
  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : 112