Would you rather have breakfast with bears, lunch with a lion or dinner with ducks?
Would you like to fly with the pelicans or swim with the fish?
Would it be worse if an elephant made a terrible smell or you fell over in a field of cows?
Ask - and answer - these questions and many more in this funny, imaginative game of a book from John Burningham.Would you rather have breakfast with bears, lunch with a lion or dinner with ducks?
Would you like to fly with the pelicans or swim with the fish?
Would it be worse if an elephant made a terrible smell or you fell over in a field of cows?
Ask - and answer - these questions and many more in this funny, imaginative game of a book from John Burningham. John Burningham (Author, Illustrator) John Burningham studied illustration and graphic design at the Central School of Art, graduating with distinction in 1959. Many illustration commissions followed including iconic posters for London Transport, before the publication of Borka- the Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers, John's first book for children (Cape, 1963) which won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration and heralded the beginning of an extraordinary career.
John Burningham has since written and illustrated over thirty picture books, that have been translated and distributed all over the world. These feature his classic and much loved children's books including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, by Ian Fleming (Jonathan Cape, 1964); Mr Gumpy's Outing (Jonathan Cape, 1970) also awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal; Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (Jonathan Cape, 1972); The ShoppingBasket (Random House, 1980); The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Penguin/Puffin, 1983); Granpa (Jonathan Cape, 1984) later made into an animated film and Oi! Get offour Train (Jonathan Cape, 1989) and various books for adults England (Jonathan Cape, 1992); France (Jonathan Cape, 1998); The Time of Your Life (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002) and When We Were Young (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004).
John is married to the illustrator, Helen Oxenbury. They have three children, three grandchildren and a dog named Miles. They live in London.