Time To Get Out Of The Bath, Shirley

John Burningham, John Burningham

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English

Red Fox
03 May 1994

Children's & Educational; Picture books; General fiction (Children's&YA)

It's time to get out of the bath but Shirley's not listening. She's floated away to a secret watery land beyond the plughole - to where knights ride white horses, and kings and queens float in moats around their castles. . .

By: John Burningham
Illustrated by: John Burningham
Imprint: Red Fox
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 290mm, Width: 230mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 205g
ISBN: 9780099200512
ISBN 10: 0099200511
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 03 May 1994
Recommended Age: From 4 To 7
Audience: Children/juvenile , 5-7 years , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Burningham is one of the most prestigious and well-loved illustrators working in the children's book field today. Trained at the Central School of Art, his first picture book, Borka was published in 1963. He has won the Kate Greenaway Award twice for Borka and Mr Gumpy's Outing, and has enjoyed a distinguished career spanning over 45 years.

Reviews for Time To Get Out Of The Bath, Shirley

Through a bathtub drain astride a rubber duck is an unlikely route to a medieval fantasy - for one thing most children's fantasies about drains are nightmares and for another bathrooms and jousting fields haven't the natural association of the pirate ship and beach in Come Away From the Water, Shirley (1977). But then Shirley's imagination never did run in conventional channels, and here she has a glorious time on land with knights on horseback and in the water with a king and queen who blow up their rubber ducks to join her in the moat. Burningham's unobtrusively mixed media and techniques on the fantasy pages are splendidly suited to the purpose, and there are some subtly amusing interactions with the facing sketches of Shirley's mother back tidying up in her prosaic bathroom. (More so than the old poop on the beach, she could be any mother.) Sparkling. (Kirkus Reviews)