The Hug is a heartwarming reversible picture book by Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar. Now a series, the Hedgehog & Friends books have sold more than 200,000 copies in the UK and been translated into 23 languages.
Introducing Hedgehog and Tortoise – both looking for a hug. But why will nobody hug them?
But there’s someone for everyone…
Faber published this warm, innovative book in traditional paperback and hardback. And they also released an unusual mini hardback edition – a size reminiscent of the original Beatrix Potter hardbacks.
A true crossover book, The Hug was released in time for Valentine’s Day 2019 and proved popular with both children and adults.
A Hedgehog & Friends sequel was already at the creative stage when the 2020 pandemic hit. With hugging suddenly off the menu, someone joked perhaps the next book should be ‘The Wave’… And While We Can’t Hug was born. As the world started to open up, The Longer the Wait the Bigger the Hug followed, and now The Roar in 2022.
Feels like being enveloped in your very own hug.
— Kirkus
Utterly lovely.
— Guardian
Sometimes all you need is a little TLC, but that’s easier said than done for a prickly-backed hedgehog and a hard-shelled tortoise. With adorable arms outstretched, the two embark from opposite sides of this innovative flip book… until Tortoise and Hedgehog meet in the middle, proving that there really is someone out there for everyone.
— Foreword Reviews
Heart-warming.
— Sunday Times
Polly Dunbar is the acclaimed illustrator of Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, Owl or Pussycat? by Michael Morpurgo and many, many more. She is also author and illustrator of Penguin, Hello, Mum and the Tilly and Friends books.
Published by Faber & Faber, 2019. Polly Dunbar and Eoin McLaughlin are both represented by James Catchpole.