The Adventures of Egg Box Dragon

From the author of Watership Down , Richard Adams, comes an enchanting picture book about the adventures of a mischievous homemade dragon. Illustrated by the award-winning Alex T. Smith. Whatever you've lost, Egg Box Dragon will find it. He's retrieved missing footballs, glasses and watches aplenty. He's so expert at cracking mysteries that the Queen herself requests his services. Will Egg Box Dragon find the missing diamond from the Queen's crown? Richard Adams was awarded both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for children's fiction. Watership Down has sold over 50 million copies. A new mini series of Watership Down will premiere Christmas 2018 on BBC1 and launch globally on Netflix Spring 2019, featuring the voices of Olivia Colman and Freddie Fox, amongst others. Author-illustrator Alex T. Smith is the award-winning creator of the bestselling Claude series, which is published in 16 languages worldwide, and begins airing as a TV show on Disney Junior in 2018. Alex's newest series, Mr Penguin , launched in 2017, to widespread praise. Alex's quirky, witty writing and illustrations are instantly recognisable, critically-acclaimed and as popular with adults as children. Alex is also widely-praised for his work illustrating children's classics: he won Children's Book of the World Illustration Award 2016 for his illustrations in a new edition of Dodie Smith's The Hundred and One Dalmatians ; he has created new art for books by Enid Blyton, Eva Ibbotson and Richmal Crompton. As well as collaborating with Watership Down author Richard Adams, he has also worked with David Almond and Juno Dawson. Alex has won the UKLA Picture Book Award and the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award, and been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award. He was the official World Book Day illustrator in 2014.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard Adams, Alex T. Smith, Alex T Smith
• Verlag: Hodder Children's Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 1 bis 5 Jahre
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781444938418
• ISBN: 978-1-4449-3841-8
• Seiten: 32
• Abmessung: 180 mm x 268 mm x 8 mm
• Themen: Kinder- und Jugendbücher > Bilderbücher; Kinder- und Jugendbücher > Bilderbücher > Erzählerische Bilderbücher; JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic, Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), For primary education, Interest age: from c 3 years, For National Curriculum Early Years, For National Curriculum Early Years (England and Wales), Watership Down; Tom Bidwell; Carnegie Medal; Guardian award