Buy this book on-line PIENKOWSKI**, JAN: : LITTLE MONSTERSLONDON.ORCHARD BOOKS,1986. ISBN 1852130008.
UK,48mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn.Pop-up book.FINE.Small ink squiggle to first 2pp,else contents fine.No inscrptn,no pop-ups or tabs damaged or missing - all intact.Pictorial coloured decorated laminated boards,dw/dj not issued,coloured pop-ups,moveables inside.Jan Pienkowski continues with masterpiece pop-ups, along with Haunted House and ROBOT.
Jan Michel Pienkowski,born 1936,Warsaw,
Poland: childhood spent in Austria,Germany and Italy.Educated in England and Wales.Read Classics and English at King's College,Cambridge and studied in London.
Founder director(1961) of Gallery Five Ltd., greetings card and publishers.As an illustrator of children's books,he works in bold colours and simplified shapes, sometimes (as in the Meg and Mog series) adopting a childlike drawing style. Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal with Joan Aiken's 'Kingdom under the Sea'(1971) and with his own pop-up book 'Haunted House' (1979).Although he collaborated with Aiken on a few of her books,perhaps his finest works are his pop-up books -'Haunted House'(1979) - see rja24 and 'Robot'(1981) - see rja1203 - the first of which sold over one million copies.Also a graphic designer for advertising and television, designer of wallpaper,stage designer and art editor.Began his artistic career by designing posters and greetings cards,but later turned to children's book illustration.
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