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  • Published: 3 February 2003
  • ISBN: 9780143519775
  • Imprint: Picture Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $19.99

Mrs Wishy Washy's Farm



Wishy-washy! Wishy-washy! Too many baths are too much for Mrs Wishy-Washy's farm animals and they decide to hit the road. Before long they'll be wishing for one of her baths...

The best known and best loved of Mrs Wishy-Washy's adventures by Joy Cowley, illustrated by Elizabeth Fuller.

Mrs Wishy-Washy is at it again, rubbing and scrubbing all the animals on the farm.
Wishy-washy. Wishy-washy.
"Moo!" the cow cries.
"I hate this old tub!
I've got soap in my eyes."

Cow, Pig and Duck decide to run away from mean old Mrs Wishy-Washy for ever.

But soon they are lost. And then they begin to think that Mrs Wishy-Washy isn't so bad after all.

But how will they get back home to the farm?

Complete with a rhyming text and animal sounds, this is the perfect readaloud story to get your preschoolers on board at bathtime!

  • Published: 3 February 2003
  • ISBN: 9780143519775
  • Imprint: Picture Puffin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Joy Cowley

Joy Cowley is a much-loved, multi-award-winning New Zealand author of more than 600 titles. She is famous in the United States as the author of the Mrs Wishy-Washy series, which has sold over 40 million copies. Three of her novels, The Silent One, Bow Down Shadrach, and Hunter, have won Children's Book of the Year awards in New Zealand; Ticket to the Sky Dance and Starbright and the Dream Eaterwon junior fiction awards two years running. Joy has been awarded the OBE for her services to children's writing. When not travelling the world, Joy spends her time between Wellington and the Marlborough Sounds.

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Praise for Mrs Wishy Washy's Farm

Delightful...down-and-dirty funny

Kirkus

I absolutely LOVE this book! I love the rhymes and the word play!

Holly, Good Reads

I love this book for story time at work (library) and read it often, the kids and adults always get a laugh out of it!

Sarah, Good Reads