Barbara Throws a Wobbler

Nadia Shireen enjoyed making homemade magazines and comics as a child. She studied law at university and then worked in magazine journalism; it was during this time that she started to draw again. After a lifetime of doodling in the sidelines Nadia decided to pay some attention to drawing and in 2007 was accepted onto an MA course in Children's Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge. Her debut book <i>Good Little Wolf</i> received a mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award and won the UKLA Book Award. Nadia has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. She lives in London. <p>Barbara is in a <i>very </i>bad mood. She won't admit it but she is. <br><br>She has a problem with a sock and at lunchtime there's a strange pea... And even though she's at the park with her friends it all just gets a bit much. Suddenly Barbara's WOBBLER is out of control! <br><br>But what if Barbara and her Wobbler can work together so she can be cheerful again?<br><br>Winner of the UKLA Award and shortlisted for the Oscar's Book Prize and the FCBG Children's Book Award <i>Barbara Throws A Wobbler</i> is a brilliantly funny and sensitive way to understand and deal with tantrums.<br><br> <b>These are the most brilliant beautiful and silly picture-books out there at the moment. Little doorways of joy.</b> Caitlin Moran<br><br><b>This book is AMAZING. It will be a modern classic!</b> - Richard Osman</p>