Overview
Can you find Professor Dupont's cheeky cockatoos?! A laugh-out loud counting book, from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake! Can you find Professor Dupont's cheeky cockatoos?! A laugh-out loud counting book, from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake! Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos - but they're always just one step ahead of him! 'Cockatoos must be the funniest and subtlest counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll' - THE GUARDIAN ""Blake is beyond brilliant . . . I've never met a child who doesn't love Quentin Blake"" - Daily Telegraph Quentin Blake is one of Britain's best-loved and most successful author-illustrators, and was made the first Children's Laureate in 1999. He has won the Whitbread Award, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, and the Kate Greenaway Medal. among others.
Full Product Details
Author: Quentin Blake ,
Quentin Blake
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint: Red Fox
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 21.20cm
, Height: 0.40cm
, Length: 27.50cm
Weight: 0.179kg
ISBN: 9780099964902
ISBN 10: 0099964902
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 17 February 1994
Recommended Age: 3-6
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
For pure fun, read again - and again - Quentin Blake's masterly Cockatoos -- Gwynneth Bailey TES 20040302 A wonderfully enjoyable story Daily Mail Must be the funniest and subtles counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll Guardian There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this Books for your Children
For pure fun, read again - and again - Quentin Blake's masterly Cockatoos -- Gwynneth Bailey * TES * A wonderfully enjoyable story * Daily Mail * Must be the funniest and subtles counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll * Guardian * There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this * Books for your Children *
Weary of hearing the same greeting day after day - Good morning, my fine feathered friends! - Professor Dupont's ten cockatoos fly the coop. He searches every room of his elaborate, old house without spotting them - but readers will, for they're all there, slightly concealed. Blake's illustrations are, as ever, funny and filled with lively detail; but while this doubles as a counting book, it's as airy and weightless as a feather. (Kirkus Reviews)
For pure fun, read again - and again - Quentin Blake's masterly Cockatoos -- Gwynneth Bailey TES A wonderfully enjoyable story Daily Mail Must be the funniest and subtles counting book, so funny you can't count anyway. Irresistibly daft, devastatingly droll Guardian There has never been, and probably never will be, a counting book as funny and delightful as this Books for your Children
Author Information
Quentin Blake has been drawing ever since he can remember. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor. He has won many prizes, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal, and in 1999 he was appointed the first Children's Laureate. In the 2013 New Year's Honours List he was knighted for services to illustration.
