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Morag Hood

    This Edinburgh-based author is an award-winning children's book creator, celebrated for her imaginative storytelling and distinctive illustrative style. Her artistic process is a joyful blend of crafting narratives, print-making, and collage, often featuring her favorite subjects like expressive eyebrows. With a background in costume design for theater, she now translates that creativity into her Edinburgh studio, drawing inspiration from the surrounding hills. She is dedicated to her craft, dreaming of one day writing a book centered around her favorite animal, the duck.

    Spaghetti Hunters
    Aalfred and Aalbert
    I Am Bat
    When Grandad Was a Penguin
    Runaway Cone
    Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea
    • Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea

      • 24 pages
      • 1 hour of reading
      4.3(113)Add rating

      Lee is a pea. All of his friends are peas; except Colin. Colin isn't a pea. And so begins the deliciously funny story of two very different friends

      Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea
    • 'Funny, silly and totally original' - Josh WiddicombeThe hunt is on for a missing traffic cone in Runaway Cone, the entertaining sequel to Dig Dig Digger by Morag Hood, fun for both adults and young children.Digger, Traffic Light and the cones are all ready to start the roadworks one morning when they notice that something's wrong . . . Gary the traffic cone is missing! And It's a disaster! They search left and right, high and low, but it's no use. Can they find Gary all by themselves? Or do they need to ask for help? What's going to happen when they find him?A laugh-out-loud mystery adventure with fun, colourful illustrations and a twist at the end leaving readers excited for more.

      Runaway Cone
    • When Grandad Was a Penguin

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading
      4.1(98)Add rating

      this picture book will give children lots to think and talk about and will also have them laughing out loud Love Reading 4 Kids

      When Grandad Was a Penguin
    • I Am Bat

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading
      4.0(21)Add rating

      This bold, bright and very funny story about a little bat plagued by cherry thieves will have the whole family giggling.

      I Am Bat
    • Aalfred and Aalbert

      • 40 pages
      • 2 hours of reading
      3.8(129)Add rating

      A heartwarming and funny story about a blossoming friendship between two solitary aardvarks.

      Aalfred and Aalbert
    • Spaghetti Hunters

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading
      3.7(85)Add rating

      An hilarious picture book following a duck in search of spaghetti.

      Spaghetti Hunters
    • The Steves

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading
      3.3(18)Add rating

      Two puffins compete to be the Number One Steve in this very funny, brightly illustrated story.

      The Steves
    • Brenda Is a Sheep

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading
      3.7(353)Add rating

      A hilarious picture book twist on the idea of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

      Brenda Is a Sheep