Posts Tagged ‘book sunday’

The Last Elegant Bear
Dennis Kyte
Published by Little Simon Books
Hardcover
The Last Elegant Bear is another one of those books where the story is eclipsed by the artwork. Story? What story? I can’t remember the story. But look at the pretty pencil sketches and colour pencil work!
The book follows the “Life and Times of Abiner Smoothie”, a [...]

Blankets
Craig Thompson
Published by Top Shelf Productions
Paperback, 592 pages 
I’ve never heard of Craig Thompson or any of his work before. When a copy of the very thick and very heavy “Blankets” landed on my desk by way of two friends, I thought it was a trade paperback of some obscure novel… until I cracked it open.
“Blankets” [...]

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
Chris Riddell
Published by Macmillan Children’s Books
Hard cover, 171 pages
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat came before Ottoline Goes To School. You can see that she’s a bit younger in this book, but it doesn’t take away the fun of the series.
Ottoline lives in the Pepperpot Building (called so because it looks like [...]