Blaze And The Castle Cake For Bertha Daye

Blaze And The Castle Cake For Bertha Daye
Alyson Waters, Claude Ponti
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NZ$ 44.99
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Hardback
h381 x 266mm - 48pg
3 May 2022 US
International import eta 10-19 days
9781953861184
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Claude Ponti' s nimble wordplay and punning, combined with his phantasmagorical and joyful illustrations, create an endearing gem of a book, bound to be a bedtime story favorite. From one of the world' s most beloved children' s book authors comes a story of a high-spirited flock of friends building an unusual birthday cake. A rabble of soft, golden "chicklets" are awoken one morning to a startling proclamation- they only have ten short days to prepare for their best friend Bertha Daye' s party. It' s time to get to work building a larger-than-life castle cake to house and feed the revelers. Made of chocolate scooped out of chocolate mines, "finer than fairy dust" flour from the hillsides, and fruit carried down twigs and stems in the forest, this will be the best-and kookiest-cake of all time. Oodles of distinctive chicklets fill every page, scurrying, fluttering, napping, tumbling, helping, and getting up to no good. When the party day arrives, guests pour into the pastry palace, many of them unmistakable characters from iconic stories' past, offering a marvelous who' s-who of story-book history.
"Ponti once again unleashes his extravagant, surrealistic imagination and love for oversize formats . . . [He] fills every inch of the pages with antics, creating a visual impact that' s like a mash-up of Minions, Miyazaki, and Where' s Waldo? . . . The party itself is positively eye-popping, with attendees who include a plethora of beloved, generation-spanning figures from children' s literature and popular culture . . . Like all birthday parties, the overall experience is a little overwhelming, but there' s no doubt that the proceedings are animated by a generous and genial creative spirit. " --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Blaze and the Castle Cake for Bertha Daye showcases the artistic and erudite storytelling talents of author Claude Ponti. A unique and prized selection for a story hour entertainment, Blaze and the Castle Cake for Bertha Daye is an original and unreservedly recommended addition to family, daycare center, preschool, elementary school, and community library picture book collections" --Midwest Book Review PRAISE for Claude Ponti' s My Valley "A mix of comical vignettes and broad vistas illustrate an account of the lives and misadventures of a clan of tiny Twims. . . . Action with immersive, full-page or larger land- and seascapes that seem to go on forever while offering multitudinous crags, glades and foreground features to investigate. " - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Ponti' s beautiful, intricate illustrations contain strange details hinting at larger stories. The guileless narrative sounds like it came directly from the brain of a child with a vivid imagination. " - Sarah Hunter, Booklist "Ponti' s dreamy paintings of towering trees and distant hills are worth lingering over. . . Fans of immersive fantasy worlds will feel that they have discovered a treasure. " - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Claude Ponti is a French illustrator and children' s author known for his inventive and playful use of words and the symbolic nature of his illustrations. His first book, L' Album d' Ad le, written for his newborn daughter, already displays the associative and dream-like presentation of children' s interior lives that characterizes many of his works. Ponti was awarded the 2006 Sorci res Special prize for his contribution to literature. Alyson Waters is a translator of modern and contemporary literary fiction, criticism and theory, as well as art history. She teaches literary translation workshops at Yale University and at New York University, and now at Columbia.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781953861184
Published: 3 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Archipelago Books
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 381mm
Width: 266mm
Pages: 48

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