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Barbara's Very Useful Guide to Moods: A World Book Day 2025 mini book

Barbara's Very Useful Guide to Moods: A World Book Day 2025 mini book

Summary

From the creator of Barbara Throws a Wobbler comes a World Book Day mini book celebrating and exploring what we feel.

Barbara is an expert on moods - she has so many every day! Join Barbara on a day full of excitement, frustration, impatience and WOBBLERS.

This new mini picture book has been created especially for World Book Day 2025.

Don’t miss these other books by Nadia Shireen:
Barbara Throws a Wobbler
Geoffrey Gets the Jitters
The Bumblebear
Billy and the Beast

About the author

Nadia Shireen

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 Good Little Wolf 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.
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