Frida and Bear Play the Shape Game!


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Frida and Bear love to draw. When Bear runs out of ideas, Frida suggests they play the shape game.




Frida and Bear


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Celebrate the power of the imagination with this inspiring picture book, a collaboration between the multi-award winning former Children's Laureate Anthony Browne and the Danish illustrator Hanne Bartholin. Frida and Bear both love to draw - but what? First Frida draws a shape, then Bear turns it into a picture. Then Bear draws a shape for Frida as the shape game begins again. Anthony Browne and Hanne Bartholin will inspire creativity in this imaginative picture book that invites the reader to join in and play the shape game too. Anthony Browne has won the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Hans Christian Andersen Award and is the former Children's Laureate. He is loved around the world for creating characters like Willy the chimp. ; The book is both a whimsical story which celebrates the power of the imagination, and a way of inspiring children's creativity. Children can enjoy the story as well as learning how to play the shape game and use ordinary objects as inspiration for their own pictures.




Little Frida


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"Following a bout with polio at the age of six, Frida Kahlo's life was marked by pain and loneliness. In real life, she walked with a limp, but in her dreams, she flew. One day, her imagination took her on a journey to a girl in white who could dance without pain and hold her secrets, an indelible figure who would find her way into Frida's art in years to come. Inspired by Frida Kahlo's diary, Anthony Browne captures the essence of the artist's early flights of fancy. A note at the end offers a brief biography of the artist who has intrigued art lovers the world over."--




The Shape Game


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Anthony Browne describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever. A sophisticated picture book.




The Little Bear Book


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Square


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From the dream team of Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett comes the second instalment in the exciting new shape trilogy. Every day, Square brings a block out of his cave and pushes it up a steep hill. This is his work. When Circle floats by, she declares Square a genius, a sculptor! “This is a wonderful statue,” she says. “It looks just like you!” But now Circle wants a sculpture of her own, a circle! Will the genius manage to create one? Even accidentally?




Gorilla


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A lonely girl receives a friendly gorilla for her birthday.




One Gorilla: A Counting Book


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Synopsis coming soon.......




The World Book Encyclopedia


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An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.




Bear Goes to Town


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Bear takes a walk in town and uses his magic pencil to rescue his new animal friends from an evil man in black. Suggested level: junior.