Bartholomew and the Bug - Hardcover

Layton, Neal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340873280 ISBN 13: 9780340873281

Verlag: Hodder Children's Books, 2004

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A light hearted take on mortality, as well as the old truth that travel is a broadening experience (Kirkus)

Zany and appealing, like an infant midnight cowboy (Daily Echo)

Neal Layton's appealing and colourful illustrations are set alongside typewritten text, which rises and falls to reflect Bartholomew and the Bug's Adventures (Child Education)

This story about mortality is writ lightly, and like Bartholomew, readers will enjoy the light side of life (Books For Keeps)

Illustrator Neal Layton does wonderfully messy, child-friendly drawings against hip, graphic backgrounds (Daily Mail)

From the quiet and sombre hills to the jazzy, brilliantly lit city, Layton cleverly contrasts the bear and the bug, whilst celebrating their friendship and their choices (The Guardian)

Bartholomew and the grizzly bear's encounter with a bug can be read from the pictures alone or from the text. Both are straightforward and unadorned, but putting them together makes a deliciously humourous whole in which the bear's stolidity contrasts with the ditzy little bug who just wants to party. The bug has just one day to live and wants to make the most of it, so finding himself in the wilderness with a snoozy bear as his only company is a disappointment. But Bartholomew is not without compassion or ingenuity, so between them they make their way to the bright lights of the faraway city where bug has the time of his life and bear learns that it is fun to sing, dance and party - now and again. The illustrations for the most part are flat and nineteenth-fiftiesish looking, and are laid on matt paper. Layton's line is scribbley and child-like and the type is a sort of thickened Courier apart from the speech bubbles through which bear and bug interact. All these actually very sophist (Book for Keeps)

OSCAR AND ARABELLA:
Oscar and Arabella are endearing woolly mammoths who yearn for adventures as long as they aren't scary. Stone Age life can be perilous but there's fun too, and ultimately they have one another. Glasgow-based Neal Layton uses mixed media, including collage and felt-tip to create his anarchic books.

(Glasgow Herald)

This is a most original and inventive book, as well as being a good introduction to woolly mammoths and the concept of extinction.
The illustrations are lively and simple ... while background detail, such as the graffiti in the cave where they are doing their prehistoric painting, adds some fun.
Altogether, this is an enjoyable story in simple language, and it should provide an enticing introduction to prehistory.

(Early Years Educator)

Illustrator Neil Layton does wonderfully messy, child-friendly drawings against hip, graphic backgrounds. (The Daily Mail)

Reseña del editor:

Bartholomew leads a quiet life, but is a kindly sort of bear, so when he meets the fly-bug, who is in a terribly tremendous hurry to find the bright lights, he decides to help him get to the big bright city. The story has human pathos, and is refreshingly original

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• Verlag: Hodder Children's Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0340873280
• ISBN 13: 9780340873281
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32