Nicholas and the Gang

GOSCINNY RENE

ISBN 10: 0714862258 / ISBN 13: 9780714862255

Published by PHAIDON JEUNESS (edition UK ed.), 2011

About this Item

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 0714862258-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nicholas and the Gang
• Publisher: PHAIDON JEUNESS (edition UK ed.)
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714862258
• ISBN 13: 9780714862255
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: UK ed.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

'Nicholas and the Gang' contains 16 stories about Nicholas, the French schoolboy, and his friends, many of whom are familiar from the other books in the series.

About the Author

Jean-Jacques Sempe (b.1932) is one of the world's most successful illustrators and cartoonists. He is the illustrator of the classic children's-book character, Nicholas, and author of a collection of some thirty albums of his cartoons and graphic novels, all published or to be published by Phaidon. His world-renowned illustrations and cartoons are featured on the cover of the New Yorker and in Paris Match. Rene Goscinny (1926-1977) is the world-famous writer and creator, along with Albert Uderzo, of the adventures of Asterix the Gaul. Born in Paris, Goscinny lived in Buenos Aires and New York before returning to France in the 1950s where he met Jean-Jacques Sempe. They collaborated on picture strips and then stories about Nicholas, the popular French schoolboy. An internationally successful children's author who also won awards for his animated cartoons, Goscinny died in 1977. Anthea Bellwas awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize (USA) in 2002 for her translation of W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. Her many works of translation from French and German (for which she has received several other awards) include the Nicholas books and, with Derek Hockridge, the entire Asterix the Gaul saga by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.