Access Denied
IMPORTANT! If you’re a store owner, please make sure you have Customer accounts enabled in your Store Admin, as you have customer based locks set up with EasyLockdown app. Enable Customer Accounts
Raymond Briggs
- Regular price
- $39.99
- Sale price
- $39.99
- Regular price
-
- Unit price
- / per
'Briggs' pencil has drawn everything about being human - the comic, the tragic, passion, tenderness, fear, anger, joy, bogeys ... slime' Posy Simmonds
Raymond 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.
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.
Extent: 112 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: Illustrated in colour
Publication date: 2020-10-01
Size: 25.1 x 19.3 cm
ISBN: 9780500022184
About the Author
Nicolette Jones is Children's Book Editor of the Sunday Times, and has been a reviewer, feature-writer, diarist, sub-editor and book-prize judge. In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Eleanor Farjeon award for her 'outstanding contribution to the world of children's books'. She has worked for all the British national broadsheets and the book trade press, and won Maritime Literature Prizes in the UK and the US.
You May Also Like
View more
This product currently has no recommended items.
Sign up to our Newsletter
Our weekly newsletter is a curated collection of interviews, articles, stunning images and books we think you’ll love. Sign up to get 20% off.
In accordance with our privacy policy, you may unsubscribe at any time.
Invalid password
Enter
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.