The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Couverture souple

Rosen, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1406349178 ISBN 13 : 9781406349177

Editeur : Walker Books Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

The welcome return of one of Michael Rosen's favourite books!

Till Owlyglass (Till Eulenspiegel) is a boy who was special from the day he was baptised three times. But not in a good way. Not in a way his parents liked. He was always in trouble for his rudeness and practical jokes, and grew up to be the most outrageous trickster in Germany. Everyone told stories about him … and they still do five centuries later. In this wickedly funny book, Michael Rosen retells the best of these traditional German tales, with pictures by Fritz Wegner which are perfectly in the spirit of the prankster’s wild tricks.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

If he wasn’t already a poet, storyteller, BBC broadcaster, and prolific children’s book author, Michael Rosen says he would like to be an actor. Anyone who has seen him in performance knows that he already is―whether bringing his humorous verse to life in front of a classroom or presenting an internationally broadcast radio show.

The charismatic author was introduced to the pleasures of language at an early age by his parents, both of them distinguished educators in London. When he was a teenager, his mother produced a British radio program that featured poetry, and this inspired him to start writing his own. Now a highly popular children’s poet and author, Michael Rosen is known for “telling it like it is” in the ordinary language that children actually use. InMichael Rosen’s Sad Book, he explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with all readers, with unmitigated truth and a touch of humor. About this book, which came from the author’s real and very personal grief, Kirkus Reviews raves in a starred review, “Readers . . . will be touched by the honesty and perception here.” In the picture book This Is Our House, Michael Rosen captured the ways that children use the language of discrimination. “Our attitudes about who’s okay and who’s not okay get formed when we’re very young,” says the author, whose simple, lighthearted story makes a compelling case for tolerance.

Michael Rosen spends an enormous amount of time in schools, working with children. When putting togetherClassic Poetry: An Illustrated Collection, he selected poems he knew firsthand that children would appreciate, together with biographical sketches of the poets themselves. “There are so many ways to enjoy poems,” the author says. “This book is a way of offering new insights into poems, poets, and the relationship between them . . . to show that great poems have been written by real people who lived in their own time and place.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Walker Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1406349178
• ISBN 13: 9781406349177
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Wegner Fritz
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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