Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Peter Bently (Author)Peter Bently grew up in an army family and went to ten different schools. He studied languages at Oxford and worked as a journalist and non-fiction book editor before becoming a children's author. He is the author of more than seventy books, including Cats Ahoy!, which won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and King Jack and the Dragon, which was an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year.
David Roberts (Illustrator)
David Roberts is an award-winning illustrator. After graduating, he worked as a milliner and a fashion illustrator, but always felt his true calling was in children’s books. He has collaborated with some of Britain’s finest children’s authors, including Julia Donaldson, Sally Gardner, Philip Ardagh and Jacqueline Wilson. He lives in London with his husband. He has been twice-shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 2006 he won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award.
A total pleasure
Independent on Sunday
Bently's award-winning chaotic humour is perfectly matched by David Roberts' eccentric and beautifully detailed illustrations
Daily Mail
Illustrator David Roberts blends caricature and an elegant style to suit both the silliness and the 1920s setting
Sunday Times
I love this author/illustrator pairing . . . Stylish and funny with a fantastic read-aloud text
Children's Previews, The Bookseller
David Roberts' illustrations are sublime
- Amanda Craig, New Statesman
The sheep on the hillside were munching away,
Much as they always did, day after day,
When suddenly something went ZOOM! overhead.
“Let’s go and see what it is!” they all said.
And so begins a ripping, round-the-world adventure as the sheep take to skies in a magnificent yellow flying machine…
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Peter Bently (Author)Peter Bently grew up in an army family and went to ten different schools. He studied languages at Oxford and worked as a journalist and non-fiction book editor before becoming a children's author. He is the author of more than seventy books, including Cats Ahoy!, which won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and King Jack and the Dragon, which was an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year.
David Roberts (Illustrator)
David Roberts is an award-winning illustrator. After graduating, he worked as a milliner and a fashion illustrator, but always felt his true calling was in children’s books. He has collaborated with some of Britain’s finest children’s authors, including Julia Donaldson, Sally Gardner, Philip Ardagh and Jacqueline Wilson. He lives in London with his husband. He has been twice-shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 2006 he won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award.