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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,...
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A shipwrecked elephant makes his tiny island a home for the many friends who come to the rescue, building increasingly intricate constructions that turn Elephant Island into a fun park city.
“Elephant Island is full of the complex and playful visual detail and humour that Leo Timmers’ readers love, with levers, pulleys and contraptions.” Julia Marshall, Publisher
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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 dinghy, 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!
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781776574346
Publisher: Gecko Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 March 2022
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Gecko Press
Illustration: Illustrations, color
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Leo Timmers
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 210.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 48
About the Author
Leo Timmers was born in 1970 in Belgium. At the age of 12 he started to draw comics and later trained in graphic design. He illustrates for magazines and newspapers and has released many successful picture books. He has a large following as one of Belgium’s pre-eminent picture book artists.
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