The Shape Game

Author(s): Anthony Browne

3-5 yrs Picture Books (Paperback)

'I was a little boy and I didn't know what to expect. It was my mother's idea - that year for her birthday she wanted us all to go somewhere different. It turned out to be a day that changed my life forever.'A family reluctantly visits an art gallery but one by one each member is energized by a different picture in the gallery and transported into the imaginative and colourful world of art.


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" Anthony Browne . . . sublime master of the visual pun." -- "Independent on Sunday"
" For sheer illustrative wit, Anthony Browne is unsurpassed." -- "Times"
" Browne's illustrations are among the most distinctive and surreal of any children's artist. A beautiful tribute to a very special dad in a dressing gown." -- "The Scotsman" on My Dad
" Delightfully simple but visually impish." -- "The Literary Review"

"From the Hardcover edition."

ANTHONY BROWNE is the acclaimed author and illustrator of such prize-winning bestsellers as GORILLA (winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Kurt Maschler Award), WILLY THE WIMP and ZOO (winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal). Anthony Browne's first picture book for Doubleday was published last year to great acclaim. VOICES IN THE PARK won the 1998 Kurt Maschler Award and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Anthony was also the winner of the 2000 Hans Christan Andersen Award for Illustration.

General Fields

  • : 9780552546966
  • : Random House Children's Publishers UK
  • : Corgi Childrens
  • : 0.204
  • : June 2004
  • : 270mm X 276mm X 4mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Anthony Browne
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : Anthony Browne
  • : 823.914
  • : 39
  • : YBC
  • : chiefly col. Illustrations