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The magic bed

Georgie gets a new bed that takes him on magical adventures.

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Main Author: Burningham, John
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.
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Beds > Juvenile fiction.
Magic > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:Georgie gets a new bed that takes him on magical adventures.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
ISBN:0375824235
037592423X
Author Notes:John Burningham was born in Farnham, United Kingdom on April 27, 1936. After two and a half years of non-military service as a conscientious objector, he graduated from Central School of Art with distinction in 1959. Before becoming a children's author and illustrator, he made puppets for Yoram Gross's animation film Joseph the Dreamer and was commissioned to produce a number of posters for London Transport.

Burningham's first picture book, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers, was published in 1963 and won the Kate Greenaway Medal. His other books included Humbert, Avocado Baby, Oi! Get Off Our Train, Courtney, Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present, Come Away from the Water, Shirley, England, Cloudland, France, and There's Going to Be a Baby written with his wife and fellow illustrator Helen Oxenbury. He also illustrated Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1964 and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows in 1983. He received the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1970 for Mr. Gumpy's Outing, the Kurt Maschler award in 1984 for Granpa, and the Booktrust lifetime achievement award in 2018 with Oxenbury. Burningham died on January 4, 2019 at the age of 82.

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