(We loved the book so much we named our son after a mouse).
Hot off the press from Penguin Central! Steig is back.
Adam Freudenheim has sent us the best news of the week.
William Steig (1907-2003) began drawing for the New Yorker in 1930. Over the next 70 odd years he contributed over 1,500 cartoons and 125 covers to the magazine. At 60 he published his first children’s book, and he went on to win the Caldecott Medal, the American Book Award and was twice nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. His book 1990 book Shrek! inspired the films and the musical (Shrek! will be available in a new edition in February 2012).
Today, in Particular Books, we are publishing four of William Steig’s most beloved and acclaimed picture books, all of which demonstrate his artistry and storytelling skill. These delightful books are perfect presents for anyone aged 3-7 as well as all adult fans of Steig’s art. Parents will enjoy reading them as much as children will enjoy listening to them and looking at the pictures. Steig’s art has been the subject of a major retrospective at the Jewish Museum in New York, and among his many fans are Maurice Sendak, John Updike and Quentin Blake.
Amos & Boris, The Amazing Bone, Doctor De Soto, Brave Irene and hopefully this is only the beginning.
‘Bill Steig forever changed the landscape of children’s books. Steig’s infectious delight in rich, subtle storytelling, combined with a graphic style both simple and simply hilarious has produced a body of work that remains astonishingly fresh and original. There is no school of Bill Steig. There is only Bill Steig.’ MAURICE SENDAK
‘William Steig’s wonderful work meshes together his lyrical drawing style, his inspired use of colour, his sense of humour, and, most important, his insight into the human condition. He is a true master.’ ROZ CHAST
‘’Steig’s art is not just testimony to his love of life but robust evidence of the necessary interaction between art and life, reality and fantasy’. JOHN UPDIKE
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