The Tyger Voyage (Picturemac) - Softcover

Adams, Richard; Bayley, Nicola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333483804 ISBN 13: 9780333483800

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, 1989

Synopsis

Ezekiel and Raphael Dubb are two tigers whose voyage to strange lands is narrated in rhyming couplets, by the author of "Watership Down" which won the Guardian Award for children's fiction in 1972 and the Carnegie Medal in 1973. He has also written "Shardik" and "The Plague". Nicola Bayley other books include "Nicola Bayley's Book of Nursery Rhymes", "Copy Cat Board Books", "One Old Oxford Ox" and "The Mouldy".

About this title

About the Author:

RICHARD ADAMS was born in 1920 and later went on to study at Worcester College, Oxford (of which he was a Scholar). He served for five and a half years in the army during the Second World War and then joined the higher civil service in Whitehall. He is most well known as the author of Watership Down, published in 1972, which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for Children's Literature.

Review:

"Bayley's pictures are characteristically painstaking and gentle, softly lit, finely worked and pretty." * Sunday Times * "The pictures are full of fascinating details, and her tigers are beautiful sensuous creatures." * Daily Telegraph * "Gorgeous." * Evening Standard * "Lively narrative ballad." * The Observer * "Full of charm and detail, there are elements of Rousseau and Dali and woodcuts and the Books of Hours." * Times Literary Supplement *

About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0333483804
• ISBN 13: 9780333483800
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32