Pops
"Pops is a warm and universal board book about a day with grandad. The bond between grandfather and child is shown through big, beautiful images and simple text. The child and their Pops explore the day--they go for a walk, collect food from the garden, eat, tell stories, and snuggle up for a r...
| Main Author: | Bishop, Gavin, 1946- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Wellington, N.Z. :
Gecko Press,
2022.
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| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
"Pops is a warm and universal board book about a day with grandad. The bond between grandfather and child is shown through big, beautiful images and simple text. The child and their Pops explore the day--they go for a walk, collect food from the garden, eat, tell stories, and snuggle up for a rest to finish."--Publisher. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 volume (unpaged) |
| ISBN: |
9781776574001 1776574001 |
| Author Notes: |
Bishop has been a professor and lectured extensively throughout New Zealand. He lectured in China at the invitation of UNESCO. In addition to his books, which often reflect his Maori heritage, Bishop has written two ballets and two TV series based on his first book, Bidibidi. He is the winner of the Russell Clark Medal for Illustration (1982), the Grand Prix in the Japanese Noma Concours for Children's Book Illustration (1984), the New Zealand Children's Picture Book of the Year (1982, 1984), the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year, and the 2018 NZ Book Awards for Children and YA, Elsie Locke Award for Nonfiction for his title - Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story (2018). He will be featured at the annual Storylines Festival of New Zealand Children's Writers and Illustrators 2015. His title Quaky Cat Helps Out made The New Zealand Best Seller List 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) |