a totally big umbrella

        From the award-winning Sarah Crossan and Rebecca Cobb comes a reassuring, perceptive and funny story about anxiety and fear and the ways that these can hold us back from embracing all of life's joys.

        Tallulah doesn’t like the rain. It spoils her new dress. It makes her favourite biscuits soggy. It ruins EVERYTHING. So, she gets an umbrella from Grandma. For a while, she feels better… But is one umbrella enough? Talullah worries about rain thundering down, and washing her away. She decides that she needs complete protection. So she gets another TOTALLY BIG umbrella and under her umbrella house, Talullah feels safe. But is she missing out on all the fun happening around her? How can she manage her fears and still BE in the world? A thoughtful, insightful and tender picture book debut from renowned author and poet Sarah Crossan, beautifully illustrated by Rebecca Cobb, that offers children new ways to think, and talk about, their anxieties.

Sarah Crossan grew up in Dublin and London. Her books for children and teenagers have won many prizes including the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal, the CBI Book of the Year, the YA Book Prize, and the CLiPPA Poetry Award. Her first novel for adults, Here Is the Beehive, waspublished in 2020 to critical acclaim, and was shortlisted for Popular Fiction Book of the Year in the AN Post Irish Book Awards Sarah’s novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She currently lives and works in East Sussex.

Rebecca Cobb is a picture book writer and illustrator based in Cornwall. As well as her own picture books, she has illustrated works by authors including Julia Donaldson, Richard Curtis, Helen Dunmore, Nicola Davies, Katherine Woodfine and Mariesa Dulak. In 2013, Rebecca won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Picture Books with her book Lunchtime, and she has been shortlisted for the prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal three times.