The Whisperer

ISBN-13: 9780007120185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 32 str.

Nick Butterworth

Opis

An edgy new picture book from the renowned creator of Percy the Park Keeper. Featuring an exciting new style of illustration and a thought-provoking plot, this stunning picture book is set to become a firm favourite.Two gangs of cats live in a scrap yard on the edge of the city. When they're not eating or sleeping, they're fighting, and that's just how The Whisperer likes it. He's a rat, and if he can keep the cats going after each other, they'll leave him and his kind alone.But just maybe, things in the scrap yard are about to change for the better. Or as The Whisperer sees it...for the worse...

Recenzje

Praise for QPootle5:
"An alien story with a difference! There's lots of laughs in this friendly, funny story and we loved the wonderfully low-tech DIY spaceship."
Practical Parenting

Praise for Albert le Blanc
''Nick Butterworth is one of the best picture book writers alive.'' The Independent

''Butterworth's drawings have a comforting clarity and his stories develop straightforwardly so the book works for just about everyone.'' Sunday Times

''Triumphant'' The Observer

Praise for QPootle5:
"An alien story with a difference! There's lots of laughs in this friendly, funny story and we loved the wonderfully low-tech DIY spaceship."
Practical Parenting

Praise for Albert le Blanc
''Nick Butterworth is one of the best picture book writers alive.'' The Independent

''Butterworth's drawings have a comforting clarity and his stories develop straightforwardly so the book works for just about everyone.'' Sunday Times

''Triumphant'' The Observer

O autorze

Nick Butterworth is the author of many internationally acclaimed children's books including 'Jingle Bells', 'QPootle5', 'Tiger' and 'The Whisperer' which won the Gold Award at the Nestle Book Awards. He is best known for his stories about Percy the Park Keeper. Nick has also presented children's stories on television, created a cartoon strip for The Sunday Express Magazine and worked for major graphic design consultancies. He has two grown-up children, and lives with his wife in Suffolk.