Picture Books for Older Readers 9+ |
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| Author | Title | Details |
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Neil Gaiman Illustrated by Dave McKean. | The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish. | Bloomsbury, 0747578400, £7.99 |
| A surreally funny adventure full of visual and verbal jokes about a boy, his sister and their long-suffering Dad. The CD tucked inside is narrated by the author for added enjoyment. And by the same inventive team - The Wolves in the Walls (Bloomsbury) is the kind of spectacularly strange, funny and scary story that stays with you. McKean's spiky artwork blends with photography, collage and paint into an unsettling whole. | ||
| Sally Gardner | The Glass Heart | Orion, 184255073X, £5.99 |
| A satisfyingly long-ish tale of three princesses, with suitably delicate and detailed illustrations evoking the Venetian setting. | ||
| Shaun Tan | The Lost Thing | Lothian, 0734403887, £4.99 |
| One teenager's quirky, thoughtful urban fable with distinctive, surreal drawings and witty graphic detail on every page. | ||
| Shirley Hughes | The Lion & the Unicorn | Red Fox, 0099256088, £6.99 |
| Understanding the nature of courage lies at the heart of this powerful, expressively illustrated story of a young boy's wartime experience as an evacuee. | ||
| Anthony Browne | The Shape Game | Picture Corgi, 0552546968, £5.99 |
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Responses to works of art for the most part subjective - also comic, challenging and life-changing as in this teasing look at some of Tate Britain's masterpieces.
Also Anthony Browne's 'Voices in the Park' tells an intriguing, thought-provoking story in four voices with arresting, surreal illustrations of cityscapes and parks.
Red Fox, 0552545643, 5.99. |
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| Pablo Bernasconi | The Wizard, the Ugly and the Book of Shame | Bloomsbury, 0747581231, £10.99 |
| Striking collage effects and decorative borders make this tale of wizardry and magic of a human kind a visual treat. | ||
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