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    What the Ladybird Heard: Book and CD Pack
    What the Ladybird Heard: Book and CD Pack
    What the Ladybird Heard: Book and CD Pack
    Audiobook18 minutes

    What the Ladybird Heard: Book and CD Pack

    Written by Julia Donaldson

    Narrated by Alexander Armstrong

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    About this audiobook

    A brilliantly funny farmyard adventure, perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime – or any time at all!

    The ladybird said never a word.
    But the ladybird saw,
    And the ladybird heard . . .

    Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are two crafty robbers with a cunning plan to steal the farmer’s fine prize cow. But little do they know that the tiniest, quietest creature of all has overhead their plot, and she has a plan of her own . . .

    What the Ladybird Heard is a fantastically funny story from the stellar partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. With brilliant rhyming verse read by Alexander Armstrong, this much-loved modern classic is perfect story for listening to together. This audio edition of the story features a read-along track and a song for lots of farmyard fun.

    Enjoy more What the Ladybird Heard Adventures: What the Ladybird Heard Next and What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 31, 2019
    ISBN9781529044256
    What the Ladybird Heard: Book and CD Pack
    Author

    Julia Donaldson

    Julia Donaldson has written some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 25 million copies worldwide and have been translated into over one hundred languages. Her other books include Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, The Hospital Dog, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures, illustrated by Lydia Monks. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle series, illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs – and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.

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