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The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
Charlie Mackesy
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Description for The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
hardcover.
A book for all ages, a book for all time.
The Sunday Times and New York Times Number 1 bestselling book that inspired the BAFTA and Oscar-winning animated film.
Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online. They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They sometimes even appear on lamp posts and on cafe and bookshop windows. Here, you will find them together in this book ... Read moreof Charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the Wild and exploring the thoughts and feelings that unite us all.
'A wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart' Richard Curtis
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Product Details
Publisher
RANDOM HOUSE UK
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
About Charlie Mackesy
British artist, illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy began his career as a cartoonist for The Spectator, before becoming a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. His award-winning work has been exhibited widely and featured in books, private collections, galleries, school classrooms, hospital wards, prisons, and public spaces around the world. Charlie worked with Richard Curtis on the set ... Read moreof Love Actually to create a set of drawings to be auctioned for Comic Relief, and with Nelson Mandela on a lithograph project, The Unity Series. His bronzes can be found in public spaces in London, including Highgate Cemetery and the Brompton Road. His internationally bestselling book, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, was published in October 2019 and holds the record for the most consecutive weeks in the Sunday Times Non-Fiction Chart across all formats as well as being the longest running Sunday Times Non-Fiction Number One of all time. A number one New York Times best-seller, it is one of eight books since 2013 that has remained on the number one New York Times Bestseller and on the New York Times Advice, Misc. Best Seller list. Charlie's beloved book is the first ever book to be awarded both the Waterstones Book of the Year and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year (2019) and has been translated into over 50 different languages. In 2023, the short animated film adaption of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short film and five Annie Awards including Best Special Production. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: The Animated Story was published in November 2023 to accompany the animated short film. Away from art, Charlie co-runs Mama Buci, a honey social enterprise in Zambia that helps families of low and no income become beekeepers. He lives between Brixton and Suffolk with his dog Barney. Show Less
Reviews for The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
Wise words
James Corden Charlie Mackesy's mesmerizing debut combines the simplicity of 'The Giving Tree', magic of 'The Velveteen Rabbit' and the curiosity of 'Paddington'
Elisabeth Egan
The New York Times
Simply, the world needs Charlie's work right now.
Miranda Hart Love, friendship and kindness - this book speaks a universal language.
Bear Grylls ... Read moreA wonderful work of art and a wonderful window into the human heart.
Richard Curtis Pure Joy
London Evening Standard
The world that I am required to inhabit is this one. But the world that I long to inhabit is the one that Charlie Mackesy has created.
Elizabeth Gilbert Those in need of peace will find it between the covers of this elegant picture book for adults and children
The New York Times
You will not be able to buy a more beautiful book for Christmas for somebody you love
Chris Evans Simply, the world needs Charlie's work right now.
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