haunted houses, juvenile fiction, pop-up books, toy and moveable books) A copy that has been read but remains intact. There is always some asshole kid that has to ruin the fun for everyone, so this book came with some war wounds.

We would always start by knocking on the front door on the cover and I always had to act surprised when the flaps opened. Although he was studying literature, even then Pieńkowski was busy illustrating for Granta magazine and designing posters for university theatre productions – in the process developing a lifelong interest in stage design. The younger ones need a bit of help following the story line, but all of them have been in awe of Tor Lokvig's paper engineering. Pieńkowski said that he took his palette from comic strips such as Desperate Dan and Dennis the Menace.It was the first time I saw a pop-up book and it’s combination of humor, scares and ingeniously designed pop-up features kept me entertained every time I opened the book. He produced several books with religious themes, such as The First Christmas (2014) and In the Beginning (2010), the latter with Walser’s masterful adaptations from the King James bible.

First printing of the First Spanish language edition, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It really tickled my nostalgic fancy, and even though so much of it was falling apart I felt I truly held a relic of my past - if not a copy I once held in eager child hands. The family then left Warsaw and travelled around Europe, including to Vienna, Italy and Germany, experiencing many hazards. D. Martin, "Jan Pienkowski", in Douglas Martin, The Telling Line: Essays On Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators (Julia MacRae Books, 1989), pp.

Just as I have Christmas books that I break out and read every year in November and December, I have this one book that I read every year as part of my All Hallow's Read/Halloween Bingo/spoopy-months celebration (spooky-adjacent sorts of things that aren't scary but are amusing). WorldCat reports that Pieńkowski's work most widely held in participating libraries is Christmas, the King James Version (1984; US ISBN 0394869230), a 24-page picture book that "[u]ses the words of the Gospels of Luke and Matthew to present the story of the birth of Jesus.

For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was UK nominee in 1982 and again in 2008 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books.

In the early days of his career Pieńkowski was employed to draw live on a BBC television children’s programme, Watch! Born in Warsaw, Jan was the only child of Jerzy Pieńkowski, a country squire before the second world war, and Wanda (nee Garlicka), a scientist. S., "Jan Michael Pienkowski (born 8 August 1936) is a Polish-born British author of children`s books?