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Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
Salley Mavor
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Description for Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
Hardcover. Includes a collection of calssic nursery rhymes. This title renders a fresh and visionary nursery rhyme world with precision and intricacy for many a generation to treasure for years and years to come. Num Pages: 72 pages, full colour illustrations. BIC Classification: YBC; YBLB1. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 258 x 261 x 11. Weight in Grams: 544.
This hand-picked collection of calssic nursery rhymes, all delicately and painstakingly illustrated by Salley Mavor, who is renown for her incredibly detailed fabric and cloth scenes. It took Mavor ten years to develop her own fabric relief technique to a level where she felt comfortable even considering illustrating a book. Now, Mavor embroiders and sews illustrations, each scene taking nearly a month to complete. In this book, Mavor renders a new and visionary nursery rhyme world with precision and intricacy for many a generation to treasure for years and years to come.
This hand-picked collection of calssic nursery rhymes, all delicately and painstakingly illustrated by Salley Mavor, who is renown for her incredibly detailed fabric and cloth scenes. It took Mavor ten years to develop her own fabric relief technique to a level where she felt comfortable even considering illustrating a book. Now, Mavor embroiders and sews illustrations, each scene taking nearly a month to complete. In this book, Mavor renders a new and visionary nursery rhyme world with precision and intricacy for many a generation to treasure for years and years to come.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
HMH Books for Young Readers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Boston, United States
ISBN
9780618737406
SKU
V9780618737406
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Pocketful of Posies: A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
"Mavor's intricate and colourfully embroidered work of art makes even the best-known childhood poems feel special and new again." (Publishers Weekly)"