The Daydreamer: With colour illustrations by Anthony Browne - Hardcover

McEwan, Ian

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9781784875985: The Daydreamer: With colour illustrations by Anthony Browne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1784875988 ISBN 13: 9781784875985

Publisher: Vintage Children's Classics, 2019

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‘A classic’ Financial Times

The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much, like Peter Fortune, is that people are likely to think you are rather stupid or dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head, such as swapping bodies with a cat, or a baby; vanquishing the school bully; or discovering a mysterious cream that makes your family disappear. Peter learns that the best thing to do, if he wants people to understand him, is to write down some of the things that happen to him while he is staring out of the window or lying on his back looking at the sky. So in this book you’ll find some of those strange and wonderful adventures, written down exactly as they happened.

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Review:

"As far-fetched and funny as anything by Roald Dahl" (Vogue)

"Clear and vivid prose . . . Read these aloud to your children and be unsettled by them" (Evening Standard)

"Perfectly judged, scary, poignant, meaningful; he makes it look easy, but this is brilliantly achieved" (Guardian)

"Brilliant...the quality of imagination at play here is something special" (TES)

About the Author:

Ian McEwan (Author)
Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; and Nutshell, which was a Number One bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.

Anthony Browne (Illustrator)
Anthony Browne is the acclaimed author and illustrator of such prize-winning bestsellers as Gorilla (winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Kurt Maschler Award), Willy the Wizard, My Dad, Voices in the Park (winner of Kurt Maschler Award) and Zoo (winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal).

In 2009, Anthony was appointed Children's Laureate, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the world of picture books. Anthony was also the first British winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, one of the highest international honours for illustration. His work has been widely exhibited and his books are published all over the world.

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