Tag Archive | "children’s books"

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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