BEAR'S MAGIC PENCIL

Description

"Bear was walking in the forest. Suddenly..." What happens next? Winners of the children's competition featured in The Sun decide... Children's Laureate, Anthony Browne, has collaborated with budding author-illustrators, aged 8 and under, to create an exciting and unique picture book - combining Anthony's character - the bear with the magic pencil - with art and stories from the winning entries. Wherever Bear goes he takes his magic pencil with him. If ever he has a problem he just draws his way out of trouble - whatever he draws becomes real . . . Anthony Browne started the story of a bear with a magic pencil, and children aged eight and under were invited to join in and complete the story. Working with The Sun team, Anthony has selected the best ideas, and used them to create the rest of the story. The result is this fabulous picture book!

Anthony Browne is the internationally-renowned, award-winning author and illustrator of forty books, including the well-loved Willy the Wimp series. He graduated from Leeds Art College in 1967 with a Graphic Arts degree and worked as a medical illustrator and as a greeting cards illustrator before creating children's books full-time. Anthony has won many awards including the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Kurt Maschler Award. In 2000 Anthony won the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for services to children's literature, and in 2005 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Education at Kingston University. He was announced as the sixth Children's Laureate in June 2009. Anthony lives in Kent and has two grown-up children.