Place to Call Home
Alexis Deacon
Sold by PlumCircle, West Mifflin, PA, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by PlumCircle, West Mifflin, PA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 10 February 2006
Condition: New
Quantity: 3 available
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An endearing adventure story about finding a place to call home.
This is the story of a band of seven furry brothers. They live in a nice, safe, warm home – a very small hole. Yet as they grow up they become too big for the tiny space and are forced out into the world. And so their adventure begins – a quest for a new place to call their own! This determined little unit tackle the elements: crossing the sea, climbing a mountain, trawling across the desert and surviving a labyrinth until, finally, they reach the edge of the world... What will they see here and will they ever find a place they can call home?
Alexis Deacon is a writer and illustrator, his first book, Slow Loris, was published in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award. In 2015 it was named one of the hundred best children's books of all time by Time magazine.
Since then, he has worked across ages and genres, from picture books such as Beegu and I Am Henry Finch to the three part graphic novel series, Curse of the Chosen. He has worked in collaboration with some of the best authors in children's literature and was the illustrator for Russell Hoban's last published story, Soonchild. From 2020–2022 he worked as the lead background designer on Hanna Barbera's cartoon series, The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe.
He has twice been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and is a two time recipient of The New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books Award. In 2014 The River won the Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize. In 2008 he was chosen by Booktrust as one of the ten best new illustrators of the preceding decade.
In addition to his own practice, Alexis also teaches illustration at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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