John Burningham

Cloudland

Buch

Paperback edition of this picture book about Albert, a small boy who falls off a mountain but is rescued by the Cloud Children. These children are feather light and live in the sky with the rainbows and clouds. Albert stays for a while but soon he is missing his home. The hardback of Whadayamean is published by Cape this month, and several other titles are being reissued in Red Fox. Readership level: 3 - 7 years.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-09-971161-2
EAN: 9780099711612
Produktnummer: 9095933
Verlag: Random House UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 48 S.
Masse: H29.6 cm x B25.3 cm x D0.5 cm 273 g
Gewicht: 273
Sonstiges: Ab 5 - 7 J.

Über den Autor

John Burningham studied illustration and graphic design at the Central School of Art, graduating with distinction in 1959. Many illustration commissions followed including iconic posters for London Transport, before the publication of Borka: the Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers, John's first book for children (Cape, 1963) which won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration and heralded the beginning of an extraordinary career. John Burningham has since written and illustrated over thirty picture books, that have been translated and distributed all over the world. These feature his classic and much loved children's books including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, by Ian Fleming (Jonathan Cape, 1964); Mr Gumpy's Outing (Jonathan Cape, 1970) also awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal; Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (Jonathan Cape, 1972); The Shopping Basket (Random House, 1980); The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Penguin/Puffin, 1983); Granpa (Jonathan Cape, 1984) later made into an animated film and Oi! Get off our Train (Jonathan Cape, 1989) and various books for adults England (Jonathan Cape, 1992); France (Jonathan Cape, 1998); The Time of Your Life (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002) and When We Were Young (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004).John is married to the illustrator, Helen Oxenbury. They have three children, three grandchildren and a dog named Miles. They live in London.