For pure fun, read again - and again - Quentin Blake's masterly <i>Cockatoos</i>

- Gwynneth Bailey, TES

A wonderfully enjoyable story

Daily Mail

Must be the funniest and subtles counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll

Guardian

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There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this

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Can you find Professor Dupont's cheeky cockatoos?! A laugh-out loud counting book, from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake! Can you find Professor Dupont's cheeky cockatoos?! A laugh-out loud counting book, from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake! Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos - but they're always just one step ahead of him! 'Cockatoos must be the funniest and subtlest counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll' - THE GUARDIAN "Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake" - Daily Telegraph Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, and the Kate Greenaway Medal. among others.
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When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos, they're always just one step ahead of him. This counting book won the 1992 Smarties Children's Choice Award.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099964902
Publisert
1994
Utgiver
Penguin Random House Children's UK; Red Fox
Vekt
179 gr
Høyde
275 mm
Bredde
212 mm
Dybde
4 mm
Aldersnivå
J, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
32

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Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children's Laureate. In the 2013 New Year's Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.