Tag Archive | "Morris the Mankiest Monster"

How do you deal with a bad, bad review? Just like this:

Saturday, November 6, 2010

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Here at the FPI blog the majority of our reviews tend to be pretty positive, for the simple reason that we really would rather spend our time and yours talking about all that’s good in comics rather than shouting about the bad. We’re not averse to writing about some bad, bad comics, and just occasionally something we [...]

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Sarah McIntyre wins book prize

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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A delighted and excited sounding Sarah McIntyre tells us that she’s won the Picture Book Award while attending the first ever Children’s Book Festival at Bishop’s Stortford for Morris the Mankiest Monster, which she collaborated with bestselling kid’s author Giles Andreae on.From Sarah’s blog it seems that kids from a number of local schools got [...]

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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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The Pig of Happiness

Monday, October 26, 2009

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“I wanted to make this film of my book The Pig of Happiness as a free project for anyone to view in order to try to increase, by however small an amount, the world’s reserves of happiness.” Thus starts this rather nice animated project by ‘Edward Monkton’, also known as Giles Andreae, creator of Purple [...]

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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 [...]

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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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