Infantil, juvenil y educativoLibros para niños: ilustrados, de actividades y de primeros conceptos de aprendizaje conceptos de aprendizaje tempranoPrimeros años: los tamaños, las formas y las figurasBIG GORILLA - A BOOK OF OPPOSITES - ANTHONY BROWNE
BIG GORILLA - A BOOK OF OPPOSITES - ANTHONY BROWNE
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BIG GORILLA - A BOOK OF OPPOSITES
Learn all about opposites through internationally renowned master picture book-maker Anthony Browne's beloved primates.
What's the opposite of old? Young! What's the opposite of sad? Happy! But what's the opposite of opposite...?
Featuring a range of exquisite primates, from gorillas to chimpanzees, white-faced capuchins to orangutans, Anthony Browne has created a wonderfully unique first book of opposites, with his striking palette and quirky flair for facial expressions sure to charm readers of all ages.
ANTHONY BROWNE
s a child
Anthony grew up in a village called Hipperholme, in Yorkshire. He loved art and would spend hours drawing with his beloved father. He says of his father, "He was an unusual man - outwardly strong and confident, but also shy and sensitive - a bit like the gorillas I love to illustrate now. As well as drawing, he encouraged me to play a lot of sports, such as rugby and soccer and cricket. I was small for my age and I used to go to a fairly tough school - if I hadn't been good at sports, I would probably have been bullied."
As an adult
After he left school, Anthony studied graphic design and then went on to paint the insides of people's bodies for medical textbooks. He found this fascinating, but after three years found that the work was becoming repetitive "if you've seen one stomach operation, you've seen 'em all!" and instead began designing greetings cards. This in turn led him to illustrating children's books - his book Gorilla began life as a picture on a birthday card. Anthony lives in Kent and has two grown-up children.
As an artist
Gorillas feature in many of Anthony's books. He says, "I am fascinated by them and the contrast they represent - their huge strength and gentleness. They're thought of as being very fierce creatures and they're not." Anthony's illustrations also reveal his love of the Surrealist painters, whose pictures often depict strange, dreamlike scenes look out for all the disguised bananas hidden in Anthony's books! . When Anthony first has an idea for a picture book, he says, "it's a strange combination of story and images. Deciding what will be illustrated on the pages of a book is like deciding on the scenes of a film." Anthony has won many prizes for his work, including the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Kurt Maschler Award three times . In 2000, he received the highest international honour for illustration, the Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his services to children's literature - the first British illustrator to win the prize since 1956. From 2009-2011 Anthony was the sixth Children's Laureate, an appointment that recognises the importance of exceptional children's writing in creating the 'readers of tomorrow.' Speaking about this latest award, Anthony says, "I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books . Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book."
Edad recomendada: a partir de 5 años
BROWNE ANTHONY
Anthony Edward Tudor Browne nació en Sheffield, Yorkshire, el 11 de septiembre de 1946 y estudió en el Leeds College of Art, donde se formó en diseño gráfico. Inició su carrera trabajando en ilustraciones médicas y posteriormente se dedicó a la creación de libros infantiles, publicando cerca de cuarenta títulos. Sus obras se caracterizan por el uso de acuarelas y la combinación de realismo con elementos surrealistas, en las que los gorilas aparecen de manera recurrente. Fue galardonado con la Kate Greenaway Medal en 1983 y 1992, y con el Hans Christian Andersen Award en 2000 y 2006. Entre 2009 y 2011 se desempeñó como Children's Laureate en el Reino Unido.
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