The Green Ship: Celebrate Quentin Blake’s 90th Birthday

New
Paperback
2000
$10.39

Two children find the Green Ship when they climb over the wall into what is more like a forest than a garden. The ship has bushes for bows and stern and its funnels are trees; a small garden shed on an ancient stump is the wheel house and in command of the ship is the owner of the garden, old Mrs Tredegar. Throughout the summer she and the Bosun and the two children sail the Seven Seas visiting exotic faraway places and having wonderful adventures.

Synopsis

Two children find the Green Ship when they climb over the wall into what is more like a forest than a garden. The ship has bushes for bows and stern and its funnels are trees; a small garden shed on an ancient stump is the wheel house and in command of the ship is the owner of the garden, old Mrs Tredegar. Throughout the summer she and the Bosun and the two children sail the Seven Seas visiting exotic faraway places and having wonderful adventures.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Red Fox
Published: 04 May 2000
ISBN 10: 0099253321
ISBN 13: 9780099253327
Children’s book age: 5-7 Years
Book Overview: All children love to act out imaginary situations in the games they play. A 'Let's Pretend' par excellence, (one of which imaginative adults take part). This is a new aspect of Quentin Blake who is invariably unpredictable in his creativity.
Prizes: Winner of Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award 1998. Shortlisted for Kurt Maschler Award 1998 and Smarties Book Prize 6-8 Category 1998.

Media Reviews

A book of exceptional warmth and humanity . . . This is Quentin Blake at his richest and most colourful * Guardian *
A book to explore and enjoy again and again * Junior Education *

Author Bio

Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children's Laureate. In the 2013 New Year's Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.