The Life of Birds

Blake, Quentin

ISBN 10: 038560985X / ISBN 13: 9780385609852

Editore: Doubleday, London, 2005

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60pp., Pictorial full colour illustrated dustjacket covered in removable protective clear plastic, orig. purple cloth boards with black text to spine, tan eps., col. illust. title-page, blake's birds by Peter Campbell, col. & b/w illust., line drawings, the birds. The pictures in The Life of Birds are bigger, broader and more sombre, but no less lively than his much-loved and hugely admired children's book illustrations. Here Quentin Blake follows in the path of the great illustrators, such as Daumier and Lear, and of fabulists like Aesop and La Fontaine. Wonderfully acute observations of how birds behave become a commentary- kindly, but penetrating- on human nature. Size: Large Oblong Quarto. Codice articolo 004887

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Titolo: The Life of Birds

Casa editrice: Doubleday, London

Data di pubblicazione: 2005

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: As New

Condizione sovraccoperta: As New

Edizione: 1st Edition.

Tipologia articolo: Book

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Riassunto:

'I seem to have difficulty keeping birds out of my books, from my illustrated version of Aristophanes' The Birds to John Yeoman's Featherbrains to Roald Dahl's The Magic Finger...' Quentin Blake's appointment as the first Children's Laureate acknowledged half a century spent bringing characters - his own as well as those of Russell Hoban, Roald Dahl, Joan Aitken and dozens of others - to life on the page. The pictures in The Life of Birds are bigger, broader and more sombre, but no less lively than his much-loved and hugely admired children's book illustrations. Here Quentin Blake follows in the path of the great illustrators, such as Daumier and Lear, and of fabulists like Aesop and La Fontaine. Wonderfully acute observations of how birds behave become a commentary - kindly, but penetrating - on human nature.

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Britain's greatest living illustrator's finest work yet