Handa's Surprise - Eileen Browne Reviews

The author of this book is Eileen Browne, Eileen was born and brought up in Birmingham. Eileen lived in London for over twenty years before moving to Wiltshire where she now lives. She worked as a school teacher and a youth worker before becoming an author and illustrator. Handa's Surprise is a really simple story set in Kenya, the ...

Author/Illustrator: Eileen Brown Publisher: Walker Books Ltd Published Date: July 1995 No of Pages: 32 Genre: Children's fiction Age Suitability: 2-5 Awards: Short listed for the 1995 Sheffield Children's Book Award About the author Born in Birmingham, Eileen Browne has lived and worked in London for ...

Handa's Surprise Like many people who work or live with children Eileen Browne thought that she would be able to write a successful children's book. After all, all you need to do is write a couple of lines per page, create an attractive central character and throw in some moral or life lesson and bob's your uncle, royalty cheques by the ...

This is a very good multi-cultural book for young children. ~ Eileen Browne ~ Eileen Browne worked as a teacher and a youth worker before becoming an author and illustrator. She once said that "certain groups of people are not well represent in books. Females only feature as main characters in around a third ...