It delights children but adults will appreciate the period evocation of the festive-season cities and the off-season seaside.' The Sunday Times

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Care-i diferența dintre un corb și un birou? a întrebat în timp ce-și scotea ceasul și și-l ducea la ureche. Și în cât suntem azi? This author/illustrator goes from strength to strength! Mouth-watering illustrations, ideal text, two mightily engaging characters -- altogether the star on top of the tree.' Nici povestea adaptată de aceasta nu m-a dezamăgit, și mă bucur că autoarea a reușit să creeze un echilibru minunat între desen și text. Local Hero is appealing, but not dynamic enough for the best display of Evans’s talents. The original plot – Houston-based oil company sends Gucci-clad executive loafering over to buy an entire Highland village for a petrochemical development – looks prescient, and David Greig’s adaptation has sharpened its edges. Axing two main characters, and making the part played here by soaring-voiced Lillie Flynn less frisky and more furious, Greig has brought out some particularly 21st-century concerns about coastal expansion – not only environmental degradation but house-snatching by incomers – and made the villagers slightly less folksy and more worldly. Yet the strange fairytale jumble of mood and time remains: here is elegy, venality and despair, digital watches and, of course, a coin-slot phone box. Hilton McRae’s nicely etched astronomer-beachcomber, sitting on the strand in his armchair with telescope and wise saws, looks like a forerunner of Jerusalem’s Johnny Rooster.

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acest an am prins mai bine gustul pentru povestea cu Alice în Țara Minunilor, ea ducându-mă cu gândul la copilărie, la vremurile când nu aveam atât de multe griji, iar lucrurile ciudate și pline de nonsens erau la ordinea zilei. This author/illustrator goes from strength to strength... Mouth-watering illustrations, ideal text, two mightily engaging characters – altogether the star on top of the tree.' Carousel A heart-warming tale of how friendships begin... This book is a wonderful tactile experience, from the shimmery glittery cover... to the gentle watercolours inside, which are printed on the creamiest of papers.' The Irish Times