Fantastic Toys
A Catalog
$35.11
- Hardcover
32 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2019
Summary
This delightfully imaginative book catalogs eleven fantastical inventions of magical toys, with detailed descriptions and vivid illustrations that will make kids want to create their own fantastic toys.
Fantastic Toy is a dream catalog of eleven marvelous inventions, magical toys that would make the world far more interesting, if only they existed. Here are inventions based on fantasy, like winged jumping boots that let you leap so high you startle the birds; inventions to assuage fea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681373119 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1681373114 |
| Author: | Monika Beisner |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 410g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 273mm x 274mm |
| Audience Age: | 2-5 |
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Critics Review
“A book I read over and over again as a child. It features such wonders as a heat- ed sheep toboggan and winged jumping boots. Four years ago, I discovered the reason we had that magical book—my mother had gone to elementary school with Monika. For me, it was as if she’d gone to school with Marilyn Monroe and never mentioned it.” —Matthea Harvey, The Paris Review Daily
“Marvelously mad and intricate ideas for toys are described in a text that has the aura of a low-keyed sales catalog, and the tone is a good foil for the extravagance of the concepts and illustrations…Fun!” —The Best in Children’s Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children’s Literature, 1973-1978
Monika Beisner
Monika Beisner is a German illustrator and artist. She studied painting in Braunschweig and Berlin, and continued her studies in New York and London. She is best known for her children’s books The Heavenly Zoo and Fabulous Beasts, and has also illustrated Dante’s Divine Comedy and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. She lives in London; Ratzeburg, Germany; and on Gozo, Malta.
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