PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jim Field is a lead-driven, pencil-pushing, 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan. He is also a hugely talented award-winning illustrator, character designer and animation director. He has worked on a variety of projects, from music videos and title sequences to advertising and books. His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway award. He has since illustrated a string of bestselling, multi-award-winning children's books, including Oi Frog! and The Lion Inside, as well as young fiction series Rabbit and Bear, middlegrade novels by David Baddiel and his debut author-illustrator picture book Monsieur Roscoe - On Holiday, a bilingual book that introduces first French words. He grew up in Farnborough, worked in London and now lives in Paris with his wife and young daughter.
rich in comic incident... [and] rewarding to pore over -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times, Children's Book of the Week * a jolly travelogue and French language lesson...a sweet and accessible story with enticing pictures -- Alex O'Connell * The Times, Children's Book of the Week *
