The Tower to the Sun - Hardcover

Thompson, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856816621 ISBN 13: 9781856816625

Publisher: Jonathan Cape (Children), 1996

Synopsis

A picture-book story which incorporates jokes and puns. The world's richest man looks out across the city and tells his grandson that the sky was once blue and the sun was so bright that you couldn't look at it. But the boy doesn't understand, for no one has seen the sun for 20 years.

About this title

Book Description

Another dazzling inventive picture book by this talented picture book artist.

About the Author

* Colin Thompson is fast becoming a cult.  His incredibly detailed pictures, packed with bizarre touches, worlds within worlds, and wondrous visual jokes, are addictive.

* Colin's book Ruby , an international hit, was linked to a contest with a real vintage automobile as the prize.  His earlier titles include The Paper Bag Prince and Looking for Atlantis .

* After leaving art school, and subsequently, the London School of Film Technique, Colin worked for a time at the BBC before moving to the Outer Herbrides, where he began twenty years of self-employment in ceramics.

*  Colin now works full time as a

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape (Children)
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856816621
• ISBN 13: 9781856816625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Thompson Colin
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32