The Illustrators: Raymond Briggs
In stock
€21.95
In stock
Add to WishlistRaymond Briggs has changed the face of children’s picture books, with his innovations of both form and subject. Stylistically versatile, he has illustrated some sixty books, twenty of them with his own text, and first became a household name in the late 1970s and early 1980s with a handful of books – Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman, The Snowman, When the Wind Blows – that were entertaining and subversive and appealed to both children and adults. The refrains of his work are class, family, love and loss. Nevertheless, his default mode of expression is humour. Briggs is always funny, and the balance between this and melancholy is his defining characteristic, though his style ranges from the romantic to the grotesque, from the fanciful to the direct.
Encompassing sixty years of Raymond Briggs’s work, from political picturebooks to children’s classics, this study explores his themes of class, family and loss, and how he demonstrates both emotional power and great technical skill.
Language | In English |
---|---|
Type | Non-fiction |
Related products
-
Tony T-Rex’s Family Album
€14.90„Tony T-Rex‘s family album: A dinosaur family“ Author: Mike Benton, Rob Hodgson Age: 6-8 years Tony T-Rex’s Family Album is a tongue-in-cheek history of dinosaurs as told by Earth’s last surviving dinosaur. Tony pens a no-holds-barred family history, and the stories that surface reveal the defining characteristics of some of the most memorable creatures from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.…
-
-
Ocean
€22.90„Ocean“ Author: Hélène Druvert Age: 6-10 years Take a deep breath and dive into this gorgeous, large-format book, which uses clever cutouts and laser-cut illustrations to explore the ocean from shoreline and shallows to inkiest depths. A meticulously crafted, die-cut coral theatre presents a wonderful stage on which a teeming underwater world plays. As well as looking at the movements…
-
Vakaro istorijos Lietuvos mergaitėms
€18.00Authors: Viktorija Aprimaitė, Viktorija Urbonaitė Age: from 4 years