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Oliver Jeffers |
HarperCollins |
9780007182305 |
March 2010 |
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Top marks to HarperCollins for the way they have designed and produced this fine work of art (guided by the artist himself, no doubt). Jeffers is exactly that, an artist who works in many formats, picture books being just one of them. A visit to his website – www.oliverjeffers.com – is recommended. |
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Monster Day At Work
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Sarah Dyer |
Frances Lincoln |
9781847800695 |
February 2010 |
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Wonderfully amusing illustrations in this join-dad-at-work-day story. Rush hour has everyone skating to work in a double-page-spread that will have children lingering over each of the different scooters. The ‘morning meeting’ spread is fun too, with dad’s arm around Monster and the table festooned with an assortment of memos, coffee cups and plates of biscuits and cakes. To be frank, not a lot happens during the rest of the day, so the trick to enjoying this picture book will be in savouring the pictures and improvising the telling. The ending teeters on a working-dad housewife-mum stereotype, perhaps not sufficiently compensated for by the irony of the final words, accompanying the picture of mum, broom in one arm, hoover in the other: “Who has it easy too.” |