Anthony Browne - Children's Author

Children's Laureate 2009 - 2011.

A firm favourite with children and adults alike, Anthony Browne has won many prizes for his work, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2000 for his services to children’s literature – the first British illustrator to win the prize since 1956. In his role as the Children’s Laureate from 2009-2011 he has inspired children of all ages to play the shape game! Anthony has written over 40 books and lives in Kent.

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Featured Books, with extracts by Anthony Browne

One Gorilla A Counting Book
Anthony Browne
Award-winning former Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne takes readers on a counting journey from 1 Gorilla through other monkeys such as chimpanzees, mandrills and baboons before reaching 10 Lemurs. From them, he leaps to himself and all humans showing how all...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2012
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How Do You Feel?
Anthony Browne
Former Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne’s characteristic and affecting illustrations are skilful in capturing simple emotions. Happy, sad, lonely, guilty, confident and shy – all these and more are eloquently expressed on the faces of Browne’s endearing chimpanzees.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2012
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How Do You Feel?
Anthony Browne
Former Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne’s characteristic and affecting illustrations are skilful in capturing simple emotions. Happy, sad, lonely, guilty, confident and shy – all these and more are eloquently expressed on the faces of Browne’s endearing chimpanzees.
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2011
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Me and You
Anthony Browne
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2011 Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne gives a thought provoking new take on the traditional story of Goldilocks. Here, Goldilocks, who lives on a dark and dreary estate portrayed all in greys in Browne’s urban...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards | eBooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Play the Shape Game
Anthony Browne
Take a shape and transform it into something new...Top names, including Jo Brand, Quentin Blake, Jacqueline Wilson, Phillip Pullman, Imelda Staunton, Anthony Horowitz, Sir Peter Blake, Linford Christie and Andrew Motion, have played Anthony Browne's Shape Game and left a new shape...
Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/07/2010
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Me and You
Anthony Browne
Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne gives a thought provoking new take on the traditional story of Goldilocks. Here, Goldilocks, who lives on a dark and dreary estate portrayed all in greys in Browne’s urban landscape breaks into the idealised, sunlit  ‘family’...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Silly Billy
Anthony Browne
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Greenway. A reassuring story about dealing with all kinds of worries. Billy can't stop worrying until his grandma gives him a set of worry dolls. Billy tells the dolls his worries and, at last, he...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2007
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My Brother
Anthony Browne
Brothers have a special relationship and younger brothers looking up to and emulating their older siblings is beautifully explored in this warm, funny and affectionate celebration of brothers by one of the UK's foremost author/illustrators, Anthony Browne.
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2007
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My Mum
Anthony Browne
Irresistible for all mums who’ll bask in the warm glow that comes from Anthony Browne’s loving celebration of the many wonderful things that mother’s do. With his familiar wit, Anthony Browne shows how women juggle the many things in their...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2006
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King Kong
Anthony Browne
A picture book to share with those who might think they were beyond the picture book stage, Anthony Browne’s King Kong is a sumptuous book which gives an awesome visual version of the original King Kong film matched by a...
Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2005
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Gorilla
Anthony Browne
Greenaway winner in 1983. Wonderfully inventive story and almost tear-jerking at times but with a happy ending.  The illustrations are both detailed and colourful and children will delight in them. I’m sure for some parents it really touches a...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/10/2002
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