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Michael Morpurgo, the last Children's Laureate, has written more than forty books and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children's Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. He is a tireless champion for children's books and was recently created Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Quentin Blake's illustration has now taken on iconic status and is famous throughout the world. The inaugural children's laureate, he is one of our best-loved advocates for everything to do with the children's book.
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Starred Review. The truth is that once we weren't children anymore, we never did believe Grandpa's story, not really—as much as we might have wanted to.... We still loved listening to it, though. Christmas nights would never have been the same without it. Voiced by an indulgent but typically skeptical youth, these opening lines frame a captivating retelling of the Nativity as experienced by the youngest shepherd, whose father and uncles have left him behind to look after the flock as they follow the star to Bethlehem. When the angel Gabriel overhears the boy's lamenting the unfairness of it all, he drops in to make things a little fairer and whisk the boy to the manger and back, lickety-split. Morpurgo's tone blends reverence with wit, a combination matched in Blake's pen-and-ink and watercolor cartoons of heavenly choruses, zooming angels and the boy shepherd holding an infant Jesus (he hopes against hope that [the baby] wouldn't cry). The six-inch-square trim size spells gift book; would-be givers should note the religious nature of the ending. All ages. (Oct.)
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- PublisherEgmont Books Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1405221755
- ISBN 13 9781405221757
- BindingHardcover
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ISBN 10: 1405221755
ISBN 13: 9781405221757
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. London. Egmont UK Ltd. 2014. Hard Cover. First printing in this edition. Small square format approx. 6" by 6". Pictorial colour boards with gold endpapers and matching dust wrapper. Wonderful illustrations in colour throughout by Quentin Blake. We have several other book where Blake has illustrated the works of other authors. A deftly wrought re-working of the nativity story from former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo. The tale is rich in human detail and Quentin Blake's watercolour illustrations ooze energy in this delightful picture book. One cold Christmas night, a shepherd recounts the magical story of how he came to be the first visitor to the newborn Christ child - ahead of the other shepherds, and in complete secret.The dust jacket will be protected with a new inert archival quality acetate sleeve which is removable. Please contact us if you would like any more information or additional photographs. Postage price quoted outside the UK is for a book up to 1kg using UPS. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg which are sent by Royal Mail. Postage quoted in the UK is the actual cost (£3.45). All books are sent in protective packing and custom book box. If your book is intended as a gift, please let us know and we will gift wrap it free of charge with a card and any message. Seller Inventory # 5MAY2023007
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