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A Balloon for a Blunderbuss
A whimsical journey through words and pictures that encourages children to imagine how a butterfly could become an overgrown jungle.
Bob Gill
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Preis: USD$14.95
- Hardback
- English
- 265 x 205 mm, 10 1/2 x 8 1/8 in
- 36 pp
- ISBN-13: 9780714848730
- ISBN-10: 0714848735
- 25 Total Illustrations
- A much loved children's classic reissued for the first time in forty years
- Imaginative and inspiring this book gives children enticing ideas for possible trades that are filled with fun, starting with a butterfly and ending up with everything
- A beautifully woven sequence of text and images, written and illustrated by a world renowned and acclaimed graphic designer and teacher
- A classic for design lovers of all ages
Bob Gill (b.1931) is a world-renowned illustrator and designer. In 1960 he joined Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes to create a design agency that was the precursor of Pentagram. In 1967 he resumed his freelance career as an illustrator, designer, teacher, film-maker, and author of children’s books. He has also written a number of essential texts on graphic design.
Alastair Reid (b.1926) is a poet and a scholar from Galloway in Scotland. He has lived in Europe, the United States, and Central and South America, working variously as a poet, translator and South American editor of the New Yorker.
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