Ethel & Ernest

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This is the way he does it, keeping the world away, pretending to be grumpy, and pouring all of that emotion into the work. However, Briggs continued to produce humour for children, in works such as the Unlucky Wally series and The Bear.

Dahl's books are populated with unfortunate children who become wounded but wiser by their adventures, such as James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, and so on.Ethel e Ernest è un fumetto che sa di casa in ogni pagina; si possono sentire le risate, le discussioni, i rumori dei lavori, il profumo del cibo, l’acqua che scorre, le risate di un bambino. They don't believe he will be making any money and they don't understand the difference between pursuing what you love versus getting a typical 9-5 job and be bored and resenting every moment of that.

Alabo la capacidad del autor para condensar casi un siglo en poco más de cien páginas, pero ojalá nos hubiera dado más detalles, más anécdotas, más de ese precioso amor. The reissue of Briggs' award winning illustrated story of his parents, issued by Jonathan Cape the year after the book was first published. Muy recomendable para pasar un rato agradable conociendo a esta gran pareja que seguro que os llega al corazón. Ethel worked as a chambermaid, Ernest a milkman, and this is the story of their life together during the large and small political and social changes of their day in Britain. Briggs's marvelous illustrations and succinct, true-to-life dialogue create a real sense of time and place, of what it was like to experience such enormous changes.

Beginning with Ethel working as a lady's maid and Ernest passing her house as a milkman we see the couple fall in love, marry and begin their lives together. I have read Briggs's silent picture book masterpiece, The Snowman, and seen an animated film based on it many times. For me it was like a dream come true - I was just so hoping it would reflect his original comic book artwork and it did.