In Quentin Blake's eloquently wordless picture book, children learn a lesson about sharing, humility and what it takes to make a family. When rag doll Clown and his toy friends are thrown into the trash, Clown picks himself up and sets out to find someone to take care of them. Meeting only with rebuffs from spoiled children and unfeeling adults, Clown finally finds a young girl who needs a little help herself. Full color.
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In Quentin Blake's eloquently wordless picture book, children learn a lesson about sharing, humility and what it takes to make a family. When rag doll Clown and his toy friends are thrown into the trash, Clown picks himself up and sets out to find someone to take care of them. Meeting only with rebuffs from spoiled children and unfeeling adults, Clown finally finds a young girl who needs a little help herself. Full color.
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Seller's Description:
NF in NF jacket. Quarto. Children's Picture Book. Cream colored spine, colorful pictorial boards are all bright and clean. Book has a faint bump at the head of the spine. Slate blue endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. Unpaginated. Dust Jacket-has light rubbing at the head of the spine with a light accompanying wrinkle in the upper edge of the rear cover right next to the head of the spine. Just a trace of rubbing at the very tip of the upper rear outside corner, also with a faint accompanying wrinkle in the upper edge of the rear cover, right next to the corner. Jacket otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. Quentin Blake probably still best known for his illustrations to Roald Dahl's books-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda, etc.
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Near Fine in Good + jacket. Book Unpaginated, wordless book of color cartoons by Blake; 4to, contents near fine, light blue endpapers; color illustrated boards, light edge wear, good+; matching priced dust jacket edge wear, tear back top, good+.
Can a picture book be touching, funny, sad, hopeful and sweet without a single word? Yes, and this is it. Eloquently wordless, Blake's unique watercolours tell the story of a discarded toy who sets out not only to find a home for himself, but for his fellow playthings as well. How he ends up doing that makes for a very warm, but never mawkish, little tale. The contrast of behaviours between the different characters is remarkable, because they are allowed no dialogue. Blake's artwork may look slapdash, even scribbly, but it is surprisingly detailed and, I suspect, very carefully designed. There are pages radiating pure happiness in this lovely book. My kids like for me to 'tell them the story'. Well worth a - I was going to say read, but you can't, so I'll say, Well worth a look.
