The Memory Book - Softcover

Curtis, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1741144515 ISBN 13: 9781741144512

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2005

Synopsis

I was born in London on a snowy morning in January not at all like the picture on the cover. I didn't mean this to be a book. It was meant for just me, drawing to remind me where I came from.' ..Neil Curtis has been drawing from the time he could hold a crayon. He has been illustrating ever since. His most recent picture book, Cat and Fish, written by Joan Grant, won the 2004 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award...This astonishing book of memories is an intensely personal record of the first seven years of his life. Neil Curtis takes you into his world, through a child's perspective, until the time his family leaves England to sail to Australia. The Memory Book is his story, but it will reconnect you to the pulse of your own childhood.

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Review

'Emotions that any reader could relate to exquisitely conveys fragile uncertainty and a child's sense of wonder.'The Sunday Age15/5/05 Preview section'This pictorial memoir includes stunning drawings in its simplicity it reconnects the image to the word and shows the jaded eye how powerful they can be together.' Los Angeles Times calendarlive.comAll of Curtis's vivid childhood memories are here, and each one winds, like a wisp of one of your own half-remembered childhood memories, around your very heart.'Denise Tarlinton, Qld school teacher on A&U web page.

Synopsis

This book lets you enter the realm of Neil Curtis' childhood memories. His evocative paintings and powerfully simple narrative are intensely personal, yet speak to the child in us all. 'I was born in London on a snowy morning in January...not at all like the picture on the cover. I didn't mean this to be a book. It was meant for just me, drawing to remind me where I came from.' Neil Curtis has been drawing from the time he could hold a crayon. He has been illustrating ever since. His most recent picture book, "Cat and Fish", written by Joan Grant, won the 2004 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award. This astonishing book of memories is an intensely personal record of the first seven years of his life. Neil Curtis takes you into his world, through a child's perspective, until the time his family leaves England to sail to Australia. "The Memory Book" is his story, but it will reconnect you to the pulse of your own childhood.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1741144515
• ISBN 13: 9781741144512
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172