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Grahame Baker-Smith has worked in illustration for twenty years and in 2011 won the Greenaway Medal for his inspiring tale of fatherhood, FARTHER. He has also illustrated Pinocchio for The Folio Society. Grahame Baker-Smith has worked in illustration for twenty years and in 2011 won the Greenaway Medal for his inspiring tale of fatherhood, FARTHER. He has also illustrated Pinocchio for The Folio Society.
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Baker-Smith’s gilded images of the father’s elaborate winged contraptions and placid spreads of sky and clouds offer hope.
—Publishers Weekly
The digitally rendered illustrations offer great variety as they enrich the brief text...This evocative story will surely elicit discussions about having dreams and the persistence necessary to accomplish difficult goals.
—School Library Journal
This is a story about dreams and visions, steeped in poetry, overlaced with the Icarus myth, and sprinkled with a touch of Freudian competitiveness. ... Baker-Smith’s digitally created illustrations draw on painterly techniques and photography to create a fantastically touched reality. ... [D]reamy art will draw visually attuned youngsters.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Strains of melancholy color this extraordinarily lovely meditation on longing. ... Elemental and sophisticated at once.
—ForeWord Reviews
A moving tale.... [Baker-Smith's] figures, hovering in that magical middle ground between fantasy and realism, possess idiosyncratic stylistic flourishes that make for instant appeal. Realistically textured and timeless clothing grounds his lushly fantastical environments, giving his images an evocative and even haunting quality. Many children will be visually captivated and want to pass their fingers again and again over the intricate surfaces of the mechanical wings the father invents. ... Beautiful and resonant...
—Booklist Online
A sweet tribute to father-son relationships across generations.
—Scholastic Parent & Child
Stunning, collage-feel digital art accentuates this beautifully written, wistful story about unrealized dreams. ... Cover-to-cover magnificent.
—Midwest Book Review
—Publishers Weekly
The digitally rendered illustrations offer great variety as they enrich the brief text...This evocative story will surely elicit discussions about having dreams and the persistence necessary to accomplish difficult goals.
—School Library Journal
This is a story about dreams and visions, steeped in poetry, overlaced with the Icarus myth, and sprinkled with a touch of Freudian competitiveness. ... Baker-Smith’s digitally created illustrations draw on painterly techniques and photography to create a fantastically touched reality. ... [D]reamy art will draw visually attuned youngsters.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Strains of melancholy color this extraordinarily lovely meditation on longing. ... Elemental and sophisticated at once.
—ForeWord Reviews
A moving tale.... [Baker-Smith's] figures, hovering in that magical middle ground between fantasy and realism, possess idiosyncratic stylistic flourishes that make for instant appeal. Realistically textured and timeless clothing grounds his lushly fantastical environments, giving his images an evocative and even haunting quality. Many children will be visually captivated and want to pass their fingers again and again over the intricate surfaces of the mechanical wings the father invents. ... Beautiful and resonant...
—Booklist Online
A sweet tribute to father-son relationships across generations.
—Scholastic Parent & Child
Stunning, collage-feel digital art accentuates this beautifully written, wistful story about unrealized dreams. ... Cover-to-cover magnificent.
—Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherTemplar
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1848771339
- ISBN 13 9781848771338
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A young boy, bewitched by his father's unrelenting passion to fly; a desperate craving that absorbs his every waking minute, finds himself entranced by the dream. When his father goes to war and does not return it seems the spell is broken.Much later, the boy, now a young man finds himself drawn once more to his father's drawings and failed experiments. Finally able to make his father's dream a reality, he flies. Will his own son be visited by this unrelenting passion? A beautiful exploration into the relationship between a father and son from award winning illustrator Grahame Baker-Smith. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781848771338
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Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Wonderful haunting illustrations capture this magical story as a father's unrelenting passion to fly finally becomes a reality. This is a poignant picture book that evokes the deep love between a boy and his father. Seller Inventory # B9781848771338
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