Inga Moore's title "Six Dinner Sid" won the 1990 Smarties Book Prize (0-5 Category).)
Kenneth Grahame was born in 1859 and wrote fiction and
fantasy for children. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows
(1908), which is considered to be one of the greatest classics of
children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon which was
later adapted to a Disney movie.
With a career in illustration spanning over 30 years, Inga
Moore is a highly distinguished author and illustrator of
children’s books, who has illustrated numerous classics to much
critical acclaim, including Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the
Willows, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and Oscar
Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost. Her other picture book titles
include A House in the Woods, Captain Cat and the award-winning
title, Six Dinner Sid, which continues to grace bookshop shelves 20
years on from publication. Born in Sussex but raised in Australia,
Inga returned to England as an adult and now lives in
Herefordshire.
A stunning achievement – Moore's illustrations are just so perfect
for the book that you can almost feel Kenneth Grahame smiling down
upon it.
*The Sunday Telegraph*
A book for your child to treasure - and, in time, share with their
own children.
*The Good Book Guide*
Inga Moores' illustrations are truly enchanting. With faultless
draughtmanship, witty characterisation, a mass of period detail and
breathtaking evocations of the English countryside.
*The Guardian*
With its wit, charm and finesse, and its atmospheric use of colour,
her work rewards endless exploration.
*The Financial Times*
Mary Jane Begin illustrates the classic story of Mole, Badger, Rat and Toad, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Each chapter opens with a vignette and includes a full-page painting of a dramatic moment in the proceedings.
Originally published in France in 1996, this edition collects the four corresponding English-language volumes that were first issued between 1997 and 2002 by NBM. Plessix's style has been called "detailed impressionism," and the limpid watercolors of his lavish adaptation give that "Somewhere Else" quality to the classic story--2008 is the 100th anniversary of Graham's novel. So many adaptations have so little space to work in that they seem more like CliffsNotes versions. But Plessix has truly adapted the tale with most of the narrative details intact--and a few new twists at the end. And while the anthropomorphic animal characters have a cute, cartoony quality, the overall effect of a timeless, golden world is not thereby disrupted; all the looniness and love of nature from the original come through beautifully. Somehow the world of Mole and his friends suggests an animal Hobbiton in a Ring-less alternative universe, where talking animals and humans coexist amid a gloriously bucolic world of water, woods, and fields based on preindustrial rural England. Unfortunately, the pages are a little too small to showcase the details of Plessix's lush art as it deserves. For all ages.--M.C. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
A stunning achievement - Moore's illustrations are just so perfect
for the book that you can almost feel Kenneth Grahame smiling down
upon it. * The Sunday Telegraph *
A book for your child to treasure - and, in time, share with their
own children. * The Good Book Guide *
Inga Moores' illustrations are truly enchanting. With faultless
draughtmanship, witty characterisation, a mass of period detail and
breathtaking evocations of the English countryside. * The Guardian
*
With its wit, charm and finesse, and its atmospheric use of colour,
her work rewards endless exploration. -- Joanna Carey * The
Financial Times *
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