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Laurence Anholt

Auteur de Camille and the Sunflowers

112 oeuvres 5,526 utilisateurs 98 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Laurence Anholt spent his early childhood in Holland where he developed a passion for Art. Before he attended school for his passion, Anholt worked as a Hotel-Night-Receptionist, a Carpenter, a Schoolteacher and an Art Lecturer, among various other odd jobs. Anholt studied painting for eight years afficher plus and earned a Master's Degree from the Royal Academy of Art in London. He met his wife and partner Catherine at the Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall. The first books the husband and wife team published were about a small pig called Truffles, in 1983 for their oldest daughter, Claire. Laurence writes all of their books and Catherine has illustrated about half of them. Laurence also illustrates his own books, in particular the bestselling series about great artists. Their work has won many awards, including the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award, the Kids' Club Network Award, the Right Start Toy and Book Award three times, the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award twice, the English Association Four to Eleven Awards twice, the US Children's Media Award and the CCBC Choices 2001 twice. They have over 70 children's titles in print. Anholt is also a public speaker and has made appearances at the European Council of International Schools Conference, The UK's Northern Children's Book Festival, the Cheltenham Festival, the Edinburgh Festival and the Hay-on-Wye Festival. He also helped to judge the prestigious Nestlé Smarties Award. afficher moins

Séries

Œuvres de Laurence Anholt

Camille and the Sunflowers (1994) 768 exemplaires
Degas and the Little Dancer (1996) 666 exemplaires
All About You (1991) 569 exemplaires
The Magical Garden of Claude Monet (1997) 458 exemplaires
Leonardo and the Flying Boy (2000) 423 exemplaires
Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail (1998) 357 exemplaires
One, Two, Three, Count with Me (1993) 236 exemplaires
Matisse the King of Color (2007) 144 exemplaires
Billy and the Big New School (1997) 86 exemplaires
Chimp and Zee (2001) 81 exemplaires
Snow White And The Seven Aliens (1998) 75 exemplaires
The Twins, Two by Two (1992) 51 exemplaires
Sophie and the New Baby (1995) 47 exemplaires
Chimp and Zee and the Big Storm (2002) 44 exemplaires
Harry's Home (1999) 44 exemplaires
Jack and the Dreamsack (2003) 41 exemplaires
Papa Chagall, Tell Us a Story (2014) 34 exemplaires
Big Book of Families (1998) 31 exemplaires
The Forgotten Forest (1648) 28 exemplaires
The New Puppy (1995) 27 exemplaires
The Magpie Song (1995) 26 exemplaires
The Hypnotist (2015) 23 exemplaires
Going to Playgroup (1992) 22 exemplaires
Two Nests (2013) 22 exemplaires
Anholt's Artists Activity Book (2012) 21 exemplaires
Monkey Around with Chimp and Zee (2002) 18 exemplaires
A Child's Gift of Art (2002) 16 exemplaires
Summerhouse (1999) 16 exemplaires
Little Copy Cub (1999) 16 exemplaires
Seven for a Secret (2006) 13 exemplaires
Babies Love Books (2009) — Auteur — 13 exemplaires
Chimp and Zee's Noisy Book (2002) 12 exemplaires
Old King Cole Played in Goal (2003) 9 exemplaires
Silly Jack and the Bean Stack (1999) 8 exemplaires
Mary, Mary, Fried Canary (1781) 7 exemplaires
Animal Friends (1991) 6 exemplaires
Knee-High Norman (1996) 6 exemplaires
Small Stories of Great Artists (2002) 6 exemplaires
We Love Bears (2011) 6 exemplaires
Babies, babies, babies! (2012) 5 exemplaires
Dos historias increíbles (1901) 4 exemplaires
Ben the Bendiest Boy (One & Only) (1999) 4 exemplaires
Babysitter Bear (Picture Puffin) (2005) 3 exemplaires
Voor het eerst naar de peuterklas (1992) 3 exemplaires
Clothes (Chunky Board Books) (2000) 3 exemplaires
Tom Thumb, the Tiny Spook (2015) 3 exemplaires
The Big Book of Love (2015) 3 exemplaires
Des patins pour Théo (1994) 3 exemplaires
Ceniciento (1999) 2 exemplaires
Gli occhi della libertà (2017) 2 exemplaires
Not More Seriously Silly Stories! (2013) 2 exemplaires
Chimp and Zee Play (2007) 2 exemplaires
Jack and the Giant Spiderweb (2015) 2 exemplaires
Cinderella at the Vampire Ball (2014) 1 exemplaire
Knee-High Normal 1 exemplaire
Het nieuwe hondje 1 exemplaire

Étiqueté

Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1959-08
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
London, England, UK
Lieux de résidence
Holland
Dorset, England, UK
Professions
children's book author
illustrator
bookshop owner
Relations
Anholt, Catherine (wife)

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Fairy-tale meets space opera in this amusing pastiche of the classic Brothers Grimm story concerning that unfortunate brother and sister, Hansel and Gretel. Though loved by their hapless father, who runs a highly unsuccessful knitting shop, the siblings find themselves ejected into space by their hateful, rocket-inventing stepmother, Luna Tick. Finding their way home the first time through an unraveling sweater, they are not so lucky the second, encountering the Space Witch in her broomstick rocket, and accompanying her back to her volcanic home. Can Hansel and Gretel escape the witch, who is intent on eating them...?

One of six entries in author Laurence Anholt and illustrator Arthur Robins' Seriously Silly Scary Fairy Tales series, which offer up lighthearted retellings of frightening fair-tales, Hansel and Gretel and the Space Witch is a book I tracked down (why else?) because of my interest in highly illustrated children's books featuring witches. More than half of each page here is devoted to Robins' artwork, so although this is more textually advanced than an early reader—I would classify it with beginning chapter books, in terms of level, despite it not having chapters—it fits the parameters of my "witchy witches" project.

In any case, I found the book entertaining, appreciating the humorous tone, and the way in which this familiar story is adapted, with the forest becoming outer space, and the witch's cottage becoming a space dome on a volcano-littered alien planet. As for the witch herself, I appreciated some of the details of her appearance, from her claw-like fingers to her long nose, tied in a knot. I think young readers who are just graduating from leveled early readers to longer fiction will enjoy this one as well, particularly if they like fairy tales, space adventures, and/or frightening stories, all told with tongue-in-cheek humor.
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AbigailAdams26 | Apr 20, 2023 |
My kid loves this book. Heaps of different things to point at and name. And a couple of loveable heroes chimp and zee (took me a couple of reads till that joke sank in).
 
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benkaboo | Aug 18, 2022 |
Twist on sleeping beauty. Instead of getting pricked by spindle or a rose thorn, Beauty gets addicted to a computer game! Well written, rolls off the tongue.

4yo (girl) and 7yo (boy) loved this so much they had me read it twice in a row.
 
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mvolz | Jul 10, 2022 |
Brings the book into the world of Monet's water gardens and painting studio through the eyes of a young girl visitor.
 
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KSchellVT | 7 autres critiques | May 26, 2022 |

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Œuvres
112
Membres
5,526
Popularité
#4,507
Évaluation
4.0
Critiques
98
ISBN
442
Langues
15

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