Review
'His humourous, avuncular style was enormously adaptable Just as some musicians are endowed with perfect pitch, he [Ardizzone] had a perfect sense of tone and with a few lines dashed on with his dip-and-scratch pen could tell you exactly the distance from foreground to background he wanted you to see. It was Ardizzone who first gave me the idea that a picture is like a theatre You open it and up goes the curtain. But this is a very intimate theatre, which the audience can return to again and again.' Shirley Hughes, Guardian
This text refers to an alternate
Hardcover
edition.
Book Description
Beautifully illustrated throughout, this magical, humorous and lively story is about the naughty Brown children and their visit to London. With Tora putting glue in the sandwiches, Emma making a chocolate cake out of mud and David putting a toad in the milk jug, disaster reigns--until the arrival of Nurse Matilda.
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Paperback
édition.