LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
October 2022 Book of the Month
This celebration of clocks is inspired by the annual Burning of the Clocks event that takes place in Brighton on the shortest day of the year. We watch as happy children parade through their playground carrying the lantern clocks of all shapes, sizes and times. Next, the parade moves down through the town and onto the seafront, then right down to the beach for a bonfire and firework display.
Nick Sharratt’s illustrations fizz with the brilliance of the fireworks and we feel all the excitement of the children with their lanterns. Readers will love joining this parade and poring over the images of the different lanterns and the excited children carrying them aloft. It’s an exquisitely simple story but so full of fun and irresistibly readable.
Andrea Reece
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Carnival of the Clocks Synopsis
On a dark winter's evening at the end of December, something strange is happening in the school playground. Lessons finished long ago, but there are lots of children still at school and they're all carrying ... clocks! Clocks of every shape and size - big, small, round and square, heart-shaped, star-shaped. What's going on? Join the children and find out as they celebrate the winter solstice on the shortest day of the year - marching through the town in the Carnival of the Clocks!
Superstar Nick Sharratt has taken inspiration from a local event known as the 'Burning of the Clocks', which takes place in Brighton every year on 21st December to mark the shortest day. The brainchild of award-winning community arts charity Same Sky, this unique event sees members of the community create their own paper lanterns and parade through the city, before burning them in a bonfire.
With Nick's iconic fun-filled and colourful artwork, this magical event is committed to the page in a wonderful story that is the perfect choice for newly independent young readers.
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9781800901285 |
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6th October 2022 |
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Nick Sharratt |
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Nick Sharratt |
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Barrington Stoke Ltd |
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Paperback |
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60 pages |
| Series: |
Little Gems |
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About Nick Sharratt
Nick Sharratt is an established illustrator who lives and works in Brighton. He has won many awards including the Sheffield Children’s Book Award (1996, 1997, 2000 and 2001), the Red House Children’s Book Award (1997, 2001 and 2003), the Smarties Book Prize (2000), the Kate Greenaway Medal (2003) and the Blue Peter Award (2003).
Julia Eccleshare, the editorial expert on Lovereading4kids says, Nick Sharratt’s big and bold illustrations leap off the page and delight very young readers with their cheerful simplicity. The sounds of lots of different noises are celebrated in Toddle Waddle as a toddler takes a simple stroll to the end of the pier and lots of others follow, greedy animals tuck into delicious plates of food at the lovely meal where manners don’t matter in Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose.
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