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Ros Asquith has been a Guardian cartoonist for 20 years and has written and illustrated over 80 books for young people. She answered only to the name of Jim until she was five and believed herself to be an Apache brave until she was nine. Her first job, aged 17, was illustrating Greek Myths for an American audio visual company. She graduated from Camberwell School of Art, working as a photographer, designer and teacher before becoming theatre critic for Time Out magazine, Co-Theatre Editor of CITY LIMITS, deputy Theatre critic of the OBSERVER and diary writer for TV TIMES.
She has painted murals in several countries and many children’s bedrooms, cuddled a wolf and shared a cigarette with a chimpanzee.
Ros has two sons and lives in North London with a jazz critic.
Food For All: What We Eat and Where It Comes From (2025)
FOOD! We all need it to live – and here is a book bursting with information, questions and ideas about the food we eat, where it comes from and how it is shared.
Is there enough food to go round? Do some countries have too much? Should we all eat organic food or go vegetarian? Where does the food on our plates start from and how does it get to us? Is farming making climate change worse – and, most important of all, how can we feed everyone on our planet, now and in the future?
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When Flowkwee goes to planet Earth on a mission, he has to stay disguised–as a small Earthling called Nigel, with only one head and four appendages! But that’s not all: His personal mission is to go to a school every day to collect Earthlings to “improve.” Nigel knows he has to act dumb around the Earthlings, so in math class he pretends he only knows his times table up until two million and six times nine, and in literacy class he pretends to read like a newborn Faathing baby. A lot of Earthling life is totally weird to Nigel–the odd removable skins Earthlings wear called “clothes” and the funny paint on his mom’s face called “makeup”–but in some ways Earth is even better than planet Faa. Earth is full of cool sounds made up of all different pitches and noises called “music,” and Earthlings get gifts every year on their birthdays, just for being alive! But while Nigel starts to embrace his Earthling self, in the background lurks a coming invasion that his dad keeps talking about. And why are they so interested in a substance called “spinach”?
The McNasty twins are horrible. Even fish put their fingers over their eyes when they see the twins coming in their ship, The Rotten Apple! But when the despicable pirates’ never-ending quest for treasure takes them to the island of Little Snoring and brings them up against honest youngsters Tat and Hetty, they find they’ve more than met their match. The Ghastly McNastys and their vile antics will have children squirming and squealing with laughter from beginning to end!
This fun and fascinating treasury features all kinds of families and their lives together. Each spread showcases one aspect of home life-from houses and holidays, to schools and pets, to feelings and family trees. Ros Asquith’s humorous illustrations perfectly complement a charming text from the acclaimed Mary Hoffman; kids will love poring over these pages again and again. A celebration of the diverse fabric of kith and kin the world over, The Great Big Book of Families is a great big treat for every family to share.
