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Mr Fox
A greedy fox is outsmarted in the end.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 17, 1986
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Gavin Bishop
84 books14 followersGavin Bishop is a highly acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator. Born in Invercargill, he spent his childhood in the remote railway settlement of Kingston on the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Studying under Russell Clark and Rudi Gopas, Gavin graduated from the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts with an honours degree in painting. He taught art at Linwood High School (now Linwood College) and at Christ’s College in Christchurch.
He won the Margaret Mahy Medal in 2000, and has also won numerous other fellowships and national book awards. His book The House that Jack Built won the Book of the Year and Best Picture Book at the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards 2000. Weaving Earth and Sky won the non-fiction section and the Book of the Year Award of the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards 2003, and was shortlisted for the LIANZA Elsie Lock Medal in 2003. He has won the LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for Illustration four times. Among his successful partnerships has been that with writer Joy Cowley, with whom he won the Best in Junior Fiction and Book of the Year at the 2008 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards for Snake and Lizard.
The Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for Picture Book Illustration was established in 2009 to encourage emergent illustrators and to acknowledge Gavin’s contribution to the writing and illustrating of children’s picture books. In 2013 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and President of Honour of the NZ Society of Authors, and he was the recipient of the 2013 Arts Foundation Mallinson Rendel Illustrator’s Award. Gavin’s artwork has featured in exhibitions internationally, including Japan and Czechoslovakia. He has written and designed two ballets for the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company: Terrible Tom and Te Maia and the Sea Devil. In 2003, during the Ursula Bethell Residency, he wrote and illustrated Giant Jimmy Jones, the world’s first three-dimensional animated picture book for HITLab at the University of Canterbury.
He won the Margaret Mahy Medal in 2000, and has also won numerous other fellowships and national book awards. His book The House that Jack Built won the Book of the Year and Best Picture Book at the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards 2000. Weaving Earth and Sky won the non-fiction section and the Book of the Year Award of the NZ Post Children’s Book Awards 2003, and was shortlisted for the LIANZA Elsie Lock Medal in 2003. He has won the LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for Illustration four times. Among his successful partnerships has been that with writer Joy Cowley, with whom he won the Best in Junior Fiction and Book of the Year at the 2008 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards for Snake and Lizard.
The Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for Picture Book Illustration was established in 2009 to encourage emergent illustrators and to acknowledge Gavin’s contribution to the writing and illustrating of children’s picture books. In 2013 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and President of Honour of the NZ Society of Authors, and he was the recipient of the 2013 Arts Foundation Mallinson Rendel Illustrator’s Award. Gavin’s artwork has featured in exhibitions internationally, including Japan and Czechoslovakia. He has written and designed two ballets for the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company: Terrible Tom and Te Maia and the Sea Devil. In 2003, during the Ursula Bethell Residency, he wrote and illustrated Giant Jimmy Jones, the world’s first three-dimensional animated picture book for HITLab at the University of Canterbury.
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June 2, 2022
A good version of the English folktale.
June 23, 2024
DONT BE LEFT HOLDING THE BAG!
Story done in the style of Laura Numeroff (if you give a mouse a cookie). A lot of repetition which is good for young readers and it teaches colours + has a shocking ending!
Story done in the style of Laura Numeroff (if you give a mouse a cookie). A lot of repetition which is good for young readers and it teaches colours + has a shocking ending!
November 17, 2023
I Love reading this book to children.
It is one of a handful of books I can read it over and over and not get sick of reading it.
It is one of a handful of books I can read it over and over and not get sick of reading it.
February 28, 2023
A 1001 CBYMRBYGU. A cumulative story of a sly fox who uses his bag to acquire bigger and bigger items of food.
One day Mr. Fox found a fat juicy bumblebee so he popped it in his bag.
Then he walked and he walked until he came to the house of…
a little white woman.
“Excuse me, could you possibly look after my bag while I go to Squintum’s house?”
“It would be a pleasure,” said the little white woman.
“Thank you kindly,” said Mr. Fox, “and I would be grateful if you were not to look inside my bag.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t do that,” said the little white woman.” But…
One day Mr. Fox found a fat juicy bumblebee so he popped it in his bag.
Then he walked and he walked until he came to the house of…
a little white woman.
“Excuse me, could you possibly look after my bag while I go to Squintum’s house?”
“It would be a pleasure,” said the little white woman.
“Thank you kindly,” said Mr. Fox, “and I would be grateful if you were not to look inside my bag.”
“Oh, I wouldn’t do that,” said the little white woman.” But…
September 5, 2020
Sly Mr Fox will frighten many little kiddies - and very little learnt on the way. But they'll likely love it - especially with Gavins illustrations.
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