Gavin Bishop est un auteur et illustrateur de livres pour enfants acclamé, réputé pour son style visuel distinctif et sa capacité à captiver les jeunes lecteurs par ses récits. Ses œuvres explorent souvent des thèmes d'identité et de connexion avec le monde naturel, toujours rendues avec des illustrations méticuleuses et engageantes. L'approche de Bishop dans sa création est profondément ancrée dans sa formation artistique, lui permettant de combiner habileté technique et vision imaginative. Ses contributions enrichissent considérablement la littérature jeunesse avec des histoires visuellement et narrativement captivantes.
Pops is a warm and universal board book about a day with grandad. The bond between grandfather and child is shown through big, beautiful images and simple text. The child and their pops explore the day—they go for a walk, collect food from the garden, eat, tell stories, and snuggle up for a rest to finish. Also available in te reo Māori as 'Koro' [ISBN: 9781776574018].
A concertina board book of big bright faces to place around baby on the floor at tummy time-by multi-award-winning author/illustrator Gavin Bishop. Babies will love tummy time or learning to sit up surrounded by this beautiful two metre fold-out, wordless board book illustrating faces and toys in bright colors. This safe and sturdy concertina book is a perfect new baby or baby shower gift, with compelling illustrations of the things babies love. Friendly faces from the whole family combine with familiar toys and objects, drawn in bold lines with a striking minimalist color palette. Choose your cover and which direction to read this fully reversible book. Accordion-fold books are perfect for babies to strengthen core muscles at tummy time with the saturated colours, simple lines and open faces that babies are hard-wired to enjoy. As the baby grows the strong simple images are perfect for introducing first words and concepts, with family faces to name-including the dog-and objects that babies love to hold and explore-soft toys, ball, keys, an enticing pair of spectacles and more. Selected as a dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picturebooks 2023.
"My dog - silly, happy, shy; my best friend"--Back cover.
The 1768 journey of James Cook’s Endeavour to the South Pacific told through the eyes of the ship’s cook.Cook’s Cook follows the 1768 journey of James Cook’s H.M.S. Endeavour with his ship’s cook, the one-handed John Thompson, as story teller.Through real recipes, events on board and the places the ship travelled on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories.Here are stories of social class, hierarchy and race; stories of explorers and the people of the land; the story of one of the world’s most famous explorers told through a fresh new lens.And of course, it’s a book about food: from Pease Pudding to Goose Pie and Shark Steaks, here’s how a resourceful cook fed a shipful of hungry sailors on their extraordinary adventure.This beautiful book is full of information drawn from extensive research alongside evocative illustrations, released in time for the 250th anniversary of the Endeavour’s journey