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The Shape Game

Written by Anthony BrowneAnthony Browne Author Alert
Category: Juvenile Fiction - School & Education
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publisher: Doubleday UK
ISBN: 978-0-385-60136-8 (0-385-60136-0)

Pub Date: September 29, 2003
Price: $24.95

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About this Book

A unique and witty book inspired by the author’s work with children in the Tate Britain gallery in London.

A family reluctantly visits an art gallery, but one by one each member is energized by a different picture in the gallery and transported into the imaginative and colourful world of art.

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Review Quotes

“Anthony Browne . . . sublime master of the visual pun.” -- Independent on Sunday

“For sheer illustrative wit, Anthony Browne is unsurpassed.” -- Times

“Browne’s illustrations are among the most distinctive and surreal of any children’s artist. A beautiful tribute to a very special dad in a dressing gown.” -- The Scotsman on My Dad

“Delightfully simple but visually impish.” -- The Literary Review

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About this Author

Anthony Browne is the acclaimed author and illustrator of such prize-winning bestsellers as Gorilla; Willy the Wimp; and Zoo (winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal). Voices in the Park won the 1998 Kurt Maschler Award. Anthony also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, 2000.

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