Mr Rabbit And The Lovely Present

ISBN-13: 9780099432951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 40 str.

Charlotte Zolotow

Opis

A little girl doesn't know what to give her mother for her birthday, but Mr Rabbit helps her with ideas based on her mother's favourite colours. The result is a basket of colourful fruit.

Recenzje

A gentle, lyrical story telling how a little girls solves the problem of what to get for her mother's birthday. A wonderful way to explore colour, with beautiful illustrations Nursery World

O autorze

Charlotte Zolotow was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1915. She was a renowned American author, poet, editor and publisher of many books for children.

As well as authoring over 60 books for children, she worked as an editor at HarperCollins and edited many well-known authors such as Paul Fleischman, Paul Zindel, Mary Rodgers, Robert Lipsyte and Francesca Lia Block.

She lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where she died, aged 98.

Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began by illustrating other authors' books for children, but the first book that he both wrote and illustrated was Kenny's Window, published in 1956. In his lifetime, he illustrated over 80 books, and received many awards, including the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. In 1970 he was the first American to win the Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator's Medal. He passed away in May 2012.