A farmyard tale for young children by the author of "Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?" which won the 1989 Smarties Book Prize and the Kate Greenaway Medal. The big bad mole is coming! The boy spreads the word and it passes round the farmyard. At first the animals are not impressed by this news, but in time they take it seriously and start to panic. So much so, in fact, that when the big bad mole does finally come, all the animals have their eyes tight shut and none of them actually sees him! Martin Waddell, who also writes under the pseudonym Catherine Sefton, has also written "Let's Go Home, Little Bear", "The Park in the Dark"(winner of the 1989 Kurt Maschler Award), "Rosie's Babies" (winner of the 1990 Best Books for Babies Award), "Farmer Duck"(winner of the 1991 Smarties Book Prize", "The Hidden House", "Sailor Bear", "Owl Babies", "Sam Vole and his Brothers" and other titles. John Bendall-Brunello has illustrated "Easy Peasy", "When I Grow Bigger" and his own story "The Seven and One Half Labors of Hercules". He has also contributed to "Radio Times" and "Private Eye".
- ISBN10 0744536561
- ISBN13 9780744536560
- Publish Date 27 July 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 November 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 32
- Language English