Wrong Trousers

by Nick Park, Peter Viney, Karen Viney

Join Wallace and his dog Gromit on their adventures. These adaptations of the world-famous animated film characters feature a cleaver story line combined with ingenious humor and brilliant characterization.

Genres: Childrens

Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE, RDI (born 6 December 1958), is an English animator, director and writer best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit, Creature Comforts, and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).

He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for A Matter of Loaf and Death, which was also the most watched television programme in the United Kingdom in 2008. His 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film.

For his work in animation, in 2012, Park was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of Blake's most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover—to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recently greatly enjoyed watching this brilliant story again. But here is the twist. I could not get out of my mind the parallel to present day America. This movie, it turns out, was a warning. Gromit is a thinking person, quiet and patient, but perceptive of the oddity of the penguin. Wallace is the average person/voter, taking the pleasantries of the penguin at face value. And the penguin is not at all what he seems to be, and disguises himself with a red hat. When Wallace finally realizes what the peguin really is, he and Gromit have to fight hard to put things right again.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent comic book style for a wallace and gromit fan.

[margeaux · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely too text-heavy for L’s current age (4) but he is really into Wallace and Gromit right now as a result of Shaun the Sheep, so we just look at the funny pictures and tell our own stories about them.

[Akari Suzuki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Time: 12/5 30min 12/6 60min
7-word summary
Dog-Birthday-Penguin-Smart-Robber-Catch-Happy

Q&A
Have you ever had pets? And what do you want to have in the future if you have a chance?
When I was an elementary school student, I had two hamsters and they were really cute.
In the future, I want to have a baby white tiger because I have watched it on TV and it was so cute but I think it is difficult to have a white tiger.

I enjoyed reading this book and I had watched this book's animation on TV it was no sounds but it was fun.

[blanca · Rating 3 out of 5]

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