Major Glad, Major Dizzy - Softcover

Oke, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954792122 ISBN 13: 9780954792121

Publisher: Little Knowall Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Major Glad, Major Dizzy is a photographic picture storybook designed for children aged 5 - 10 years. It's based on the true discovery of a hidden hoard of Victorian toys under the author's floor. It will introduce some of the milestones of recent British history and hopefully interest children in tracing the past through found objects and old photographs. It's also funny and poignant in parts.

About this title

About the Author

Jan Oke grew up in London, where she met and married two photographers (one at a time) and worked as a rostrum camera-woman, a journalist and an art gallery assistant. She has six children. With her second husband, the late Jerry Oke, she published the photographic storybook 'Naughty Bus' in 2004. Major Glad, Major Dizzy is her second book, a collaboration with photographer Ian Nolan.

From the Back Cover

By the author of Naughty Bus.
A few years ago, builders working in our house uncovered buried treasure beneath the floorboards. It was a little pile of Victorian toys, rather grubby and faded, and nibbled by generations of mice. Census records show that two children, Amelia and William, lived here with their parents and one servant, when the house was nearly new at the beginning of the 1870s, and it seems likely that the toys were theirs. The discovery was a fascinating and touching reminder of the family who lived here so many years ago and it was the inspiration for this story.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little Knowall Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0954792122
• ISBN 13: 9780954792121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32