Tag Archive | "children’s books"

It’s a grey, miserable day – have a picture of Sarah McIntyre’s new book….

Friday, November 20, 2009

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Just because it’s a lovely, happy image on a rather miserably grey day with rain sheeting down here – Sarah McIntyre’s next children’s book, written by Gillian Rogerson: When King Cupcake is kidnapped by hungry aliens, it’s up to his feisty daughter, Princess Spaghetti, to save him from becoming their dinner. She blasts off into space [...]

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Fleece Station, Banal Pigs and Manky Monster news….

Saturday, October 31, 2009

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And if you understand that title, well done, you’ve been reading the FPI blog for a long time – maybe we need long service badges? First up: The latest Panel Borders podcast concludes a month long series of shows on “collectives and anthologies” with Dickon Harris chatting to the Banal Pig pairing of Steve Tillotson [...]

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Salem Brownstone – Just your usual art-deco gothic fantasy children’s book…

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Salem Brownstone – All Along The Watchtowers by John Hattis Dunning and Nikhil Singh Walker Books “A wonderfully imaginative and stylish piece of work and a perfect example of the adventurous new directions that comic books should be taking in the future.” Alan Moore. That Alan Moore quote on the back of this children’s book pretty much sums up [...]

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DFC back … sort of.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

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Announcement over at the Booktrade.info site about the forthcoming range of DFC books to be released by David Fickling books in 2010. For those new to this DFC thing or for those of us with short memories; The DFC was a weekly subscription only comic from David Fickling that was much loved around these parts (Here’s [...]

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Morris is marvellously, monstrously manky

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Morris The Mankiest Monster by Giles Andreae and Sarah McIntyre David Fickling Books It’s years since he last changed his t-shirt. It’s crusty and crawling with ants. His shoes are all slurpy and squelchy inside. And potatoes grow out of his pants. Just look at the cover – sweet, cute and fantastically gross. But what you can’t see is the brilliantly embossed [...]

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Morris the Mankiest Monster to be let loose at BICS

Sunday, September 20, 2009

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Sarah McIntyre – a solid fave with the FP blog crew – has announced that her collaboration with much-loved writer of some lovely children’s books, Giles Andreae, Morris the Mankiest Monster, will make its debut at the upcoming British International Comics Show (which will run over October 3rd and 4th) and is published by David [...]

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The 323 Detective Agency – open for funny business

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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The 323 Detective Agency – The Disappearance Of Dave Warthog by Fiona Robinson Amulet Books / Abrams The simplest way to review this would be to tell you that on the day we got it in the post, Molly sat down with it and read the whole thing, cover to cover, complaining every time  we dragged her away [...]

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All that glisters here really is golden: The triumphant return of Andi Watson’s Glister

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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Glister: The Haunted Teapot by Andi Watson Walker Books Glister was a comic series that came out in 2007 from Image Comics; 3 issues of the series made it out before the plug was pulled. But in many ways the book was doomed from the start; after all, Image are hardly the ideal company to market a comic [...]

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Meet Morris The Mankiest Monster

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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More future releases to talk about. But no apologies because if you’re anything like me you can’t look at that image without grinning inanely. That’s Morris The Mankiest Monster, the first children’s book by illustrator Sarah McIntyre (of the much missed Vern & Letuce in the DFC). It’s written by Giles Andreae (who did all [...]

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Tales From Outer Suburbia – take a walk through Shaun Tan’s magically surreal neighbourhood

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan Templar Publishing Where exactly does an illustrated children’s book become a comic or graphic novel? More and more I find myself picking up some gorgeous children’s book or other and finding it drifting towards what I’d define as comics. And that’s one of the reasons I picked up Shaun Tan’s Tales [...]

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Propaganda gets caught in the Crazy Hair of Gaiman & McKean

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Crazy Hair By Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. We love Gaiman and McKean’s picture books in our house; from the very earliest age my daughter Molly has been transfixed with the incredible tales of Dads getting swapped for a pair of goldfish and wolves living in the wall of houses. They’ve been bedtime stories since she was [...]

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