Coppernickel, The Invention - Hardcover

Van Reek, Wouter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592701000 ISBN 13: 9781592701001

Publisher: Enchanted Lion, 2008

Synopsis

A highly visual story of invention and friendship, this book will encourage young readers to dream!

About this title

About the Author

van Reek went to art school, which was way too easy, so he changed to mathematics, but that was too hard, so he changed back to art. After art school, he created an animated cartoon series for TV, introducing Keepvogel (Coppernickel in English) and Tungsten. So far, Wouter has created about six books based on these characters. van Reek went to art school, which was way too easy, so he changed to mathematics, but that was too hard, so he changed back to art. After art school, he created an animated cartoon series for TV, introducing Keepvogel (Coppernickel in English) and Tungsten. So far, Wouter has created about six books based on these characters.

Reviews

PreSchool-Grade 2—Sometimes keeping things simple is the best practice. That is the moral of this story about two best friends, Coppernickel the bird and Tungsten the dog, who set out to invent a machine for picking hard-to-reach elderberries. The clever cartoon characters are outlined in bold strokes, filled in with flat colors, and have elongated dot eyes. They are quite expressive despite their minimalist rendering. The slightest change in line—the shape of his mouth, for instance—has Tungsten shifting from reflective to horrified to angry. As both he and Coppernickel sketch out their inventions on sheets of paper, the bird's illustrations rapidly spill over to the walls and the floor, while the dog's sheet remains relatively blank. Although essentially a line drawing, Coppernickel's diagram is quite complicated in the number of gears it has; and when he becomes physically caught in his own invention, van Reek shifts to depicting the sequence of events in a series of miniature square panels. The eclectic mix of visual simplicity and detail combined with straightforward text results in a timeless tale of imagination and friendship that children will be drawn to and enjoy again and again.—Kim T. Ha, Elkridge Branch Library, MD
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Edition details

• Publisher: Enchanted Lion
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592701000
• ISBN 13: 9781592701001
• Binding: Board book
• Number of pages: 32