NSW Author
August 2017
The Man in the Panama Hat and the Windy, Windy Day ISBN
9781925545418
Author
Joachim Gevert
Illustrator
Ffranses Ingram
$ARP
$16.95
Binding
P/B
Height | Width
220
Pages
32
Published
01/07/2017
Category
Picture books
Publisher
Little Steps Publishing
255
The Man in the Panama Hat would love nothing more than staying indoors. Every time he leaves the house, something goes wrong. Can Mr Black Cat convince his friend to venture outside and have some fun? A windy, windy day awaits!
Author Information Joachim Gevert was born in Cooma, NSW. He moved to Sydney at the age of four and has lived there ever since. He has a background in engineering, and he considers his fourteen-year-old Fox Terrier, Hershey, to be one of his best friends. He’s incredibly excited for The Man in the Panama Hat to enter the world. He has many more adventures (and tribulations) planned for the Man in the Panama Hat that he would love to share. Illustrator Information Growing up, Ffranses was never allowed to go out without bringing back a story from the Welsh village. This led to one’s eyes and ears being open all the time, and major embellishments added to complete the story for retelling around the kitchen fire. In her illustrations, Ffranses shows the ordinary becoming extraordinary by embracing our adventurous, imaginative side, and leaving the mundane and prosaic aspects of life to experience different sorts of reality. Ffranses is fascinated by the little dramas that are played out quietly alongside the main action. The inspiration for this is Joseph Wright, who does this so beautifully in Frank Muir’s What-A-Mess. Studying drama and voice production, Ffranses gained work upon arrival in Australia as a story-teller for the South Australian Education Department and School of the Air. Her stories have been screened and published in Australia and America. She gained her visual arts degree, and Diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration from Enmore Design Centre, so she can further her passion for creating picture books that are lifelong companions and pathways to extraordinary ways of being, Phone: 03 9762 9100 | Fax 03 9762 9200 Email: orders@dennisjones.com.au
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