The Green Ship: Celebrate Quentin Blake’s 90th Birthday

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With each review, I provide a Cleanliness Report, mentioning any objectionable content I come across so that parents and/or conscientious readers (like me) can determine beforehand whether they want to read a book or not. As of 2006, he has participated in the writing and/or illustrating of 323 books (of which he wrote 35 himself, and 18 were by Dahl).

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I thought it was lovely that it was dedicated to Joan Aiken, as the story here has the kind of quirky appeal I associate with her work.The ship has bushes for bows and stern and its funnels are trees; a small garden shed on an ancient stump is the wheelhouse and in command of the ship is the owner of the garden, old Mrs Tredegar. The illustrations in the book were beautiful and when reading the story I could tell that Quentin Blake has thought carefully about his illustrations to make sure the illustrations were describing the text well. It might not be entirely feasible to mimic this in your own backyard, but with the inventive spark this book affords, your kids just might be able to come up with an idea for a hide-away fort of their own. The techniques are good because his illustrations are unique with bold outlines for the picture and a variety of different colours.

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Two children find the Green Ship when they climb over the wall into what is more like a forest than a garden. This is a beautiful example of how powerful our imagination is and how we should remember that as we get older. Mrs Tredegar is the owner of the ship and the garden that it sits in, and the children set off on an imaginative adventure across the Seven Seas with her.The children find a green ship - a set of trees that have been crafted to look like a ship on the ocean. Content surprises are super annoying, especially when you’re 100+ pages in, so here’s my attempt to help you avoid that! They're trained as the crew of that marvellous ship and spend whole days 'exploring the world' with Mrs Tredegar. Throughout the summer she, the Bosun and the two children sail the Seven Seas visiting exotic faraway places and having wonderful adventures. She is the author of Exploring Children’s Literature now in its fourth edition (Sage, 2019) and co-author of Guiding Readers, winner of the UKLA Academic Book Award (UCL, 2016).

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I would recommend this book for use in Literacy, or just for a good 'Story Time' book at the end of the day. I think this would be a good story to use within class to get children using their own imagination and also getting them to discuss the characters. Tredegar, the owner of the garden and ship, the children are soon involved in a wonderful season of imaginative play.

For his lasting contribution as a children’s illustrator, he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 2002the highest recognition available to creators of children’s books. In an age when the internet, television and technology are becoming central to children's lives, this story shows the reader the excitement that the outdoors can bring. They also meet marvellous Mrs Tredegar, who turns them into a fully trained crew, and with their imaginations at the ready, they embark on a series of glorious voyages. There are links with children’s everyday lives, children use their imagination and therefore the young readers will understand the characters feelings of excitement when finding the an object or nature that can convert it into something exciting. He taught illustration for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art, of which he is an honorary professor.