The Man from the Land of Fandango - Hardcover

Mahy, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547819889 ISBN 13: 9780547819884

Publisher: Clarion Books, 2012

Synopsis

“The man from the land of Fandango / Is given to dancing and dreams, / He comes in at the door like a somersault star / And he juggles with junkets and jam in a jar / And custards and caramel creams.”
 
Two children paint Mr. Fandango to life, and together the trio has a tremendous adventure with baboons and bisons, dinosaurs and kangaroos! Polly Dunbar’s textured, childlike illustrations reveal a playful imaginary world, and even the lines of type curve and tango. A bouncy, buoyant read-aloud for storytime.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Mahy lives in New Zealand and is internationally acknowledged as one of today's most outstanding children's writers.  She has received the Hans Christian Andersen Award and is a two-time winner of England's Carnegie Medal, and her books have garnered numerous citations from the American Library Association.  She is also the recipient of an Order of New Zealand, the highest honor a citizen can receive.

From Booklist:

This rhyming romp provides a bit of delightful tomfoolery for storytime. When a sandy-haired young boy and girl make a painting of a Willy Wonka-ish man with a funny hat and ruby cheeks, he flies off the wall like a somersault star and merriment commences as the trio frolics through their imaginations with kangaroos, baboons, dinosaurs, and a bison in high heels. Together they all play music, blow bubbles, and eat cake in their friendly fandandical way, and as they tingle and tongle and tangle across full-page spreads with plenty of white space, joyful nonsense shapes made with watercolor and collage do their own dances of silly fun in step to the undulating words. This innocently surreal and deceptively effortless depiction of play highlights the skills of two masters of the craft (the Hans Christian Andersen Award–winning Mahy passed away in summer 2012) and is great fun for reading aloud, moving along to, and enjoying. Preschool-Grade 1. --Andrew Medlar

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0547819889
• ISBN 13: 9780547819884
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Dunbar Polly