Author: Vipont, Elfrida, Briggs, Raymond, Briggs, Raymond

Picture books

Published on 22 February 1979 by Penguin Random House Children’s UK (Puffin) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 32 pages
96 x 203 x 3 | 140g

Follow along with the adventures of a giant elephant and a mischievous baby in this timeless picture-book story.

When an Elephant meets a Bad Baby and offers them a ride, it’s the start of a wild adventure – going ‘rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta’ down the road, and helping themselves to ice creams, lollipops, and all manner of sweet treats. But as a long line of disgruntled shopkeepers and salespeople begin to follow them, Bad Baby learns the importance of saying ‘please,’ and all the trouble you can get into if you forget . . .

Elfrida Vipont worked as a teacher, singer and writer. She wrote over 30 books and won the Carnegie Medal in 1950 for Lark on the Wing. Raymond Briggs has pr