Mikey Please

The Café at the Edge of the Woods

Illustrator: Please, Mikey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Rene and Glumfoot are ready to serve Very Fine Cuisine at the Cafâe at the Edge of the Woods. But when their first customer, an ogre, demands pickled bats and battered mice, Rene is ready to give up! She can't possibly serve such rubbish. Or can she? With a little bit of compromise, perhaps she can satisfy her customer and still serve the most delicious grub"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Altersempfehlung: 4 bis 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 218mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780063345492
• ISBN-10: 0063345498
• Artikelnr.: 69632972

Autorenporträt

Mikey Please is a BAFTA Award–winning and Oscar-nominated animation director and writer based in London. He is an alumnus of Wimbledon College of Arts and the Royal College of Art and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Café at the Edge of the Woods, his picture book debut, has received astounding praise from booksellers around the globe and has landed on many best-books lists. He is also the author of the upcoming adult novel The Expanded Earth. You can visit Mikey at mikeyplease.co.uk.   

Rezensionen

'[an] accomplished debut ... the artwork is sublime ... so original, so distinctive, it suddenly makes the competition look bland' The Times

'An unusual, intricate, delightfully grotesque rhyming picture book' The Guardian

'Exasperated parents of picky eaters will love this gorgeously illustrated, gothic gourmet giggle' Daily Mail

'I really, really love this story' Jon Klassen

'[Mikey Please] has one of the most brilliant minds I know' Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All at Once

'A captivating picture book debut' Bookseller

'A funny, tautly plotted delight ... The Café at the Edge of the Woods is a brilliantly accomplished debut that will appeal to children and their parents' Bookseller