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Allan Ahlberg is the author of many books, including The Jolly Postman and its two sequels, which together have sold over five million copies. He lives in England and works in a writing hut overlooking the river Thames.
Raymond Briggs is the creator of The Snowman, which has been translated into more than ten languages, as well as Father Christmas, The Bear, and numerous other books. He lives in Sussex, England.
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Raymond Briggs is the creator of The Snowman, which has been translated into more than ten languages, as well as Father Christmas, The Bear, and numerous other books. He lives in Sussex, England.
Ahlberg (The Jolly Postman) and Briggs (The Snowman) create a dialogue of words and images in these tales of a clumsy Englishman or, rather, an overgrown English boy. In Chapter One, Bert wakes up: "Meet Bert. This is him. Say hallo to Bert." The character extends a voice-bubble "Hallo!" His beaming smile, button eyes and round head suggest Briggs's Snowman reborn as a rugby player. Next, the text addresses a diminutive, dowdy Mrs. Bert and Baby Bert, who is "fast asleep. Shh! Turn the page... quietly." Inevitably, flipping the page awakens the baby, who explodes into red-faced howling. Bert himself is an infantile fellow, with an awkward body, endearing curiosity and holes in his droopy knit socks. When he tries to dress himself, he tumbles out the door ("He ends up in Scotland"); when he meets a giant sausage, he panics, unaware that it's a costumed vendor. Ahlberg's artful narrative comments on and chats with the slapsticky, colored-pencil images. Briggs's visual sequences communicate the hero's actions eloquently and add atmospheric touches (e.g., a striped tail protrudes from a margin, but readers never see the whole cat), and he alters the pacing by moving fluidly from spreads to comic strip-style panels. Both author and illustrator invite audience conversation with their amiable hero. Ages 3-6.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0670893293
- ISBN 13 9780670893294
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages32
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THE ADVENTURES OF BERT
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ISBN 10: 0670893293
ISBN 13: 9780670893294
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Raymond Briggs (illustrator). 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked and unread condition bound in illustrated laminated boards. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. To accompany this book is an original unique die cut, full colour, single copy holder / showcard. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Bert has all sorts of ridiculous adventures and they're told in this book in a slapstick, almost farcical way. The reader is made to feel part of the story when he/she is told to turn the page quietly so as not to wake Bert's baby and they're blamed when the baby starts to cry. Bert rescues a barking cardboard box from the river, is chased down the street by a giant sausage and much more. Ref UUU T. Seller Inventory # 031380
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