One Last Thing

"Daddy, please can I say one last thing?" 
 
Mattie is going to bed - she definitely is... She has just one more thing to say before she goes to sleep. 
 
However that one more thing turns out to be a fantastical adventure which guides Mattie and Daddy round the house in pursuit of the tricky, twisty Great Pampoose. But will Mattie ever get to bed? 
 
Celebrating imaginative play amidst the battle of bedtime, these awardwinning first-time collaborators bring to life a rich world of adventure at home.

Natalia O’Hara (Author) Natalia and Lauren are two sisters from the North of England. In the daytime they edit scripts and design sets, and at night they draw and write together. As children they loved fairytales, animal fables and the stories their Polish grandmother told on snowy nights. Hortense and the Shadow is their first picture book. Lizzy Stewart (Illustrator) Lizzy Stewart is an illustrator and author currently based in London. She writes 
and illustrates both picture books for children and illustrated books for adults. In 
2017 her picture book There's a Tiger in the Garden won the Waterstones 
Children's Book Prize and World Illustration Award. Her debut full-length novel 
Alison was published in July 2022. She teaches illustration at Goldsmiths 
University and has also taught courses at the Tate and on behalf of the National Gallery.

&quot;Daddy, please can I say one last thing?&quot; 
 
Mattie is going to bed - she definitely is... She has just one more thing to say before she goes to sleep. 
 
However that one more thing turns out to be a fantastical adventure which guides Mattie and Daddy round the house in pursuit of the tricky, twisty Great Pampoose. But will Mattie ever get to bed? 
 
Celebrating imaginative play amidst the battle of bedtime, these awardwinning first-time collaborators bring to life a rich world of adventure at home.

Lizzy Stewart

Books by Lizzy Stewart

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