By Fiona French (author) , Fiona French (illustrator)
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This delightful trickster tale based on characters from traditional Caribbean and West African folk-tales is brought to vivid life with vibrant illustrations.
Poor Anancy and rich Mr Dry-Bone both want to marry Miss Louise, but she wants to marry the man who can make her laugh. She does not laugh at Mr Dry-Bone's conjuring tricks and acrobatics so Anancy decides to ask the animals for help in winning her over.
A feast of inter-related text and pictures. - The Observer
Fiona French was born in Bath. She was taught by illustrator Charles Keeping at Croydon College of Art and worked as an assistant to the artist Bridget Riley from 1968 to 1973. Her first picture book, Jack of Hearts, was published in 1968. She won the Greenaway Medal in 1986 for Snow White in New York. Since then she has written and illustrated other brilliantly coloured and imaginatively conceived picture-books including Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone and Little Inchkin, many of which remain in print after several decades. She lives, and paints, in Norfolk.
Photo credit: Claire Tait
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This delightful trickster tale based on characters from traditional Caribbean and West African folk-tales is brought to vivid life with vibrant illustrations. Poor Anancy and rich Mr Dry-Bone both want to marry Miss Louise, but she wants to marry the man who can make her laugh.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone and determined it is suitable for children aged 5-8 years old
Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Recommendations, Romance / Relationship Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Animal Stories, Traditional Tales, Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone was written by Fiona French and published by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books an imprint of Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone has 32 pages
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