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Into the Forest Paperback – 1 August 2005
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A shortcut through the forest to Grandma's house produces some eerie moments – and some oddly familiar characters – in a strikingly illustrated tale about facing fears.
One night a boy is woken by a terrible sound. A storm is breaking, lightning flashing across the sky. In the morning Dad is gone and Mum doesn’t seem to know when he’ll be back. The next day Mum asks her son to take a cake to his sick grandma. "Don’t go into the forest," she warns. "Go the long way round." But, for the first time, the boy chooses to take the path into the forest, where he meets a variety of fairy tale characters.
- Reading age5 - 7 years
- Print length32 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions27 x 0.5 x 24.9 cm
- PublisherWalker Books
- Publication date1 August 2005
- ISBN-101844285596
- ISBN-13978-1844285594
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With each page, our expectations of what will happen shift, as Browne plays with readers’ knowledge of the fairy-tale source to set up suspense, before a happy resolution. . . Like so much of Browne’s work, this book encourages children to look attentively and think about motives and meanings. -- Nicolette Jones ― The Sunday Times
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“When I see my childhood drawings, I realize that they are not very different from the illustrations I do now,” says Anthony Browne. “All children are surrealists in a sense. One of the things the surrealists were trying to do was to paint familiar things as if they were seeing them for the first time. Children are, of course, actually seeing them for the first time.”
Winner of the highest international honor for illustration, the Hans Christian Andersen Award―as well as the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal (twice) and the Kurt Maschler Award (three times)―Anthony Browne has garnered much praise for his crisp, polished artwork full of tongue-in-cheek humor and hidden surprises. His book Silly Billyreflects this trademark style. In the humorous and affecting tale about anxiety, a homespun solution from Grandma and a final clever twist provide young readers with an antidote to worry. “I didn’t want the worry dolls to be the ‘magic’ that would cure Billy,” notes the author-illustrator. “At first he’s worrying about himself―the fears of threatening hats, shoes, etc., but Billy’s inner worries are turned out, by at first worrying (or caring) about worry dolls, and then caring about his friends. Worrying can be a kind of caring, and as such is a healthy part of a balanced emotional life.”
Anyone familiar with Anthony Browne’s books knows he likes to use his surrealist style to personify primates, from the hapless Willy the chimp, star of a comical series of picture books, to the beloved Gorilla, to the personable chimpanzee of I Like Books. “I am intrigued by gorillas and the contrast they represent―their huge strength and gentleness,” he explains. “They’re thought of as being very fierce creatures, but they’re not.” When Anthony Browne begins work on a book, the ideas come to him “as a strange combination of story and images. It’s like planning a film―working out the pages of a book is like deciding on the scenes of a film.”
While growing up in Yorkshire, England, Anthony Browne spent hours drawing with his father, an influence that stayed with him into adulthood. He says of his father, “He was an unusual man―outwardly strong and confident, but also shy and sensitive―a bit like the gorillas I love to illustrate now.” After studying graphic design, Anthony Browne went on to paint illustrations for medical textbooks for three years, then switched to designing greeting cards. This, in turn, led to creating children’s books when a greeting-card gorilla decided to take on a life of his own. The father of two grown children, Anthony Browne lives with his wife in Kent, England.
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- Publisher : Walker Books
- Publication date : 1 August 2005
- Language : English
- Print length : 32 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1844285596
- ISBN-13 : 978-1844285594
- Item weight : 210 g
- Reading age : 5 - 7 years
- Dimensions : 27 x 0.5 x 24.9 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 73,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Reviewed in Australia on 8 January 2021Verified PurchaseGood paper quality and fast delivery
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RibusReviewed in Spain on 2 April 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Una más que entretenida película de género
Verified PurchaseEn el que lo importante no es tanto el ritmo de un thriller, como la creación de una atmósfera que nos sumerja e implique en la historia.
En este caso intimista, entre dos protagonistas femeninas, que deben de afrontar nada menos que el fin de la civilización, y todas las comodidades que habían venido disfrutando, casi sin darse cuenta.
Pequeña joya que disfruté al máximo.
- sarah louReviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Author
Verified PurchaseSadly my son is still not reading for pleasure but reading as a chore which I find sad. However, this book he absolutely loved reading and enjoys reading again and again for pleasure. He's asked for other books by this author and at 6 it was great he could read it himself.
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NocomisReviewed in Japan on 17 February 2005
5.0 out of 5 stars 不思議な世界へのいざない
Verified Purchaseお父さんが蒸発した朝、母に頼まれて病気の祖母の家へ見舞いに向かう少年。どっかで聞いたような話?そう、ベースは『赤頭巾ちゃん』ですが、話の中にジャックと豆の木のジャックや、ヘンゼルとグレーテルらしき兄弟etc.背景の中にも不思議な仕掛けがたくさん!シュール・レアリズム的です。また、お父さんとお母さんの微妙な人間関係の描き方も意味深で、現代核家族における孤独感のようなものも感じました。