LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
This delightful book by Leo Timmers follows Arnold the seafaring elephant on his journey to build a new home after a particularly boisterous wave sinks his boat. As always with Timmers, the books focuses on the collective, on everyone working together, no animal left behind. As the book progresses it becomes more exuberant, more colourful, more and more funny as Arnold's ideas become more and more outlandish. Arnold is so inventive, and you see the island he constructs piece by piece page by page and it's a pleasure to watch it all come together. A stunning fable for kindness and bringing people together, to be enjoyed again and again
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Elephant Island Synopsis
A shipwrecked elephant makes his tiny island a home for the many friends who come to the rescue, in the new picture book from New York Times Illustrated Book Award winning author.
Selected for The New York Times Best Children's Books 2022
Caught in a storm, Arnold the elephant washes up on a tiny island. Along comes Mouse in a little dingy and Arnold steps aboard...uh-oh! They use the wreckage to make the island bigger. And here's Dog-can this boat take Arnold's weight? Uh-oh!
None of the animals can save the shipwrecked elephant but each broken vessel provides new materials for another intricate construction. Wheels and pulleys create a Ferris wheel, an elevator, a waffle maker. All the animals work as a team to build increasingly intricate constructions that turn the desert island into a fun park city. Soon there is a whole community and enough space for everyone!
As with all Leo Timmers picture books, Elephant Island has many layers of discovery. Tapping into the childhood pleasure of contraptions, this cheerful picture book is full of complex and playful visual detail and humour that Leo Timmers' readers love. Preschoolers who enjoy Meccano and Lego will find joy on every page with the creation of each new imaginative construction, packed with mechanical detail on bright double page spreads. Elephant Island is a runaway hit in Europe.
"Yet another triumphant experiment for the award-winning Timmers." The New York Times
Picture Book finalist, Teach Early Years Awards 2022.
Other books by Leo Timmers:
Monkey On The Run
Where Is The Dragon?
Who's Driving?
Gus's Garage
Franky
Bang!
About This Edition
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9781776574353 |
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1st September 2022 |
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Leo Timmers |
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Leo Timmers |
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Gecko Press |
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Paperback |
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40 pages |
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Press Reviews
Leo Timmers Press Reviews
'Timmers combined all his pictorial and narrative qualities, which undeniably makes this picture book one of his best.' - Mirjam Noorduijn, NRC
'The book becomes progressively more exuberant and humorous, the visual creativity greater'- Bas Maliepaard, Trouw
'Every page is filled with delightful details that will have little ones searching the pages for all the fun to be found there. This has “Read it again” written all over it. Don’t miss it.' - Seattle Book Review
'The tender yet dynamic verbal and visual narrative never falters in this engaging picture book.' - Booklist
'The colors and clever details are electrifying. This light-tension, winking tale of a makeshift homecoming is sure to delight audiences at story time.' - Foreword Reviews, Starred
'It’s a picture book tribute to the power of collective, constructive play, and to heeding the call of freedom.' - Publishers Weekly
'A work of genius. As always with Timmer’s books there is always hope and nobody gets left behind.' - Bob's Books Blog
'Elephant Island is like a fabulous fable that might be about conservation, or refugees, or human connections and kindness, or community survival. It is also a terrific story for the sake of story and I love it to bits.' - Paula Green, Poetry Box
'A precious gem with a sparkling soul at its centre. A soul that couples narrative inventiveness to visual ingenuity, technical mastery and deeply human warmth.' - Kurt Snoekx, Bruzz
Author
About Leo Timmers
Leo Timmers was born in 1970, in Belgium. He is trained in Graphic Design and illustrates for Belgian magazines and papers as well as illustrating picture books.
He started writing his own stories gradually.
In 2000 he received a Bookfeather award for his illustrations in 'Happy with me' and he won the annual Children’s and Youth jury Award in both 2005 and 2006. In 2007 he won with his picture book ‘Who's driving?' which has been translated into twelve languages.
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