The Frank Show (Read aloud by Stephen Mangan)
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- $ 19.900,00
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- $ 19.900,00
Descripción editorial
This is a read-along edition with audio synced to the text, performed by Stephen Mangan.
There’s more to Frank than meets the eye…
A quirky, witty and utterly brilliant picture book from the award-winning creator of Marshall Armstrong is New to our School.
Frank is your typical grandad, but no one has a grandad like him…
If you had to stand up and talk, for one whole minute, about a member of your family, who would you pick? Everyone else chooses really cool people, like Tom’s Uncle Marlon who plays drums in a band, or Hannah’s mum with her company car. But there’s nothing cool about grandad Frank… or is there?
In this hilarious, wise and heart-warming story, awesome new picture book talent David Mackintosh shows with a supreme lightness of touch just how much the older generation has to teach us, and how much fun learning from them can be. Perfect for young boys and girls from 3+.
Reviews
Praise for Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School:
“I think this book is fantastic because I can read it myself and I love the pictures and the way it looks. The story is really, really good and fantastic because it's strange and weird.” Child’s review on the Guardian’s children’s book site.
“A sophisticated combination of faux-naïve pencil drawing, collage and varied layouts makes David Mackintosh’s Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School striking.” Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times Culture
“…a beautifully illustrated first book from the writer and illustrator David Mackintosh.” Daisy Bridgewater, Telegraph Magazine
“Even very young readers will … enjoy how Mackintosh’s beautifully underplayed text and genial drawings manage to be empathic to both the leery narrator and the serenely outré object of his misapprehension. Without a whiff of pedantry, Mackintosh skillfully dismantles the narrator’s defenses and bonds him to Marshall Armstrong, all the while proving that fun doesn’t always fit within the confines of one’s comfort zone.” Publishers Weekly
About the author
David Mackintosh was born in Belfast and grew up in Australia. He is a graphic designer, art director and illustrator. His innovative book designs have won him numerous awards in Britain and internationally, and has collaborated with some of the most celebrated names in children’s publishing.
He lives in noisy London, plays the guitar and his favourite flavour is coconut and if they don't have that, pistachio.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As in Marshall Armstrong Is New to Our School, British author/illustrator Mackintosh presents a story of an ordinary boy being won over, reluctantly, by someone outside the mainstream. In this case, it's the narrator's grandfather, Frank, a quintessentially cantankerous specimen of a man who believes things were better in the good ol' days. "These days there are too many gadgets and gizmos," Frank types out on a green "Prehistoric" brand typewriter. "I prefer doing things the old-fashioned way." When the boy has to talk for "one full minute" about a family member for show-and-tell, Frank is his only option ("Mom was very busy and Dad had had a very long day"). The boy approaches show-and-tell like a prisoner headed for the gallows (Mackintosh draws him all alone in gray, while his classmates laugh and shout in color on the opposing page), but there's more to Frank than his grandson realizes. Mackintosh's busy, helter-skelter images contribute mightily to the story's humor and emotional honesty, but it's the willful personalities of both of these protagonists that make it stand out. Ages 5 7.
