The Diggers

by Margaret Wise Brown, Antoine Corbineau (Illustrator)

Overview

A fun and playful story by Margaret Wise Brown, best-selling author of the children's classics Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny.

Dig, dig, dig! Join the animals and machines as they dig an incredible journey of discovery underground in this imaginative story from best-selling children's author Margaret Wise Brown. This amazing adventure is brought to life by French illustrator Antoine Corbineau, using a patchwork of texture and color in his vibrant illustrations to bring the fun and energetic world of the diggers to life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684127429
Publisher:	Silver Dolphin Books
Publication date:	03/19/2019
Series:	Margaret Wise Brown Classics
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 11.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Margaret Wise Brown (1910–52) was an American children's book author. Her best-known works include Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny.

Antoine Corbineau is a French creative born in 1982. Since graduating from Camberwell College of Arts London and Ecole Superieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, he has worked with major brands, newspapers, and advertising agencies worldwide. Using a range of mediums and techniques, Antoine creates beautifully busy patchworks of texture, imagery and creative typography. His work has the rare and powerful gift of both instantly communicating a simple key message or brand, but also effectively sharing a much larger amount of information hidden within the fun and energetic worlds of his illustrations. After living in Strasbourg, London, New York, and Paris, Antoine now lives and works in Nantes.

Date of Birth:

May 23, 1910

Date of Death:

November 13, 1952

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Place of Death:

Nice, France

Education:

B.A., Hollins College, 1932; Bank Street College of Education

Website:

http://www.margaretwisebrown.com

Editorial Reviews

This reinterpretation of Brown's "The Diggers" (1960), originally published with two-color illustrations by Clement Hurd, features large, brilliantly colored oil paintings in a heroic style that romanticizes man and his machines (no gender neutrality here). The energetic, eye-catching artwork is the attraction because this is not one of the author's best texts. But that won't bother small boys in the locomotive and steam-shovel phase, who'll find lots to like here.

Carolyn Phelan