9780714848730: A Balloon for a Blunderbuss
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| SKU | 9780714848730 |
|---|---|
| Title | A Balloon for a Blunderbuss |
| Author Description | Bob Gill |
| Uri | store/childrens-books/a-balloon-for-a-blunderbuss-9780714848730/ |
| Web Author Description | Bob Gill (b.1931) is a world-renowned illustrator and designer. In 1960 he joined Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes to create a design agency that was the precursor of Pentagram. In 1967 he resumed his freelance career as an illustrator, designer, teacher, film-maker, and author of children’s books. He has also written a number of essential texts on graphic design. Alastair Reid (b.1926) is a poet and a scholar from Galloway in Scotland. He has lived in Europe, the United States, and Central and South America, working variously as a poet, translator and South American editor of the New Yorker. |
| webLongDescription | This lovingly restored 1960s children's classic takes design lovers of all ages on a fantastic journey, via an imaginative and entertaining series of trades and swaps that starts small, with a butterfly, and ends up including absolutely everything in the world, from straw hats to the stars in the sky. A beautifully woven sequence of entertaining text and bold illustrations, written by Alastair Reid and illustrated by Bob Gill, this book will delight the youngest and oldest of readers. |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Size | Size: 265 x 205 mm (10 1/2 x 8 1/8 in) |
| Pages | Pages: 36 |
| Illustrations | 0 |
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