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Cockatoos
When Professor Dupont's pet cockatoos decide to scatter, sharp-eyed readers are challenged to help the distraught professor find his fine feathered friends.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
October 12th 1992
by Little Brown and Company
(first published January 1st 1992)
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The story is simple enough. Professor DuPont is stuffy and boring, so his ten cockatoos decide they’ve had enough and hide from him for a whole day. Professor DuPont looks everywhere, but the cockatoos are always just out of sight – but not for the reader, which makes for an enjoyable seek and find experience.
Quentin Blake has quite a distinctive illustration style; in Cockatoos, his sketchy lines and watercolors create a wild, slightly disheveled appearance that seems at odds with Professor DuP...more
Quentin Blake has quite a distinctive illustration style; in Cockatoos, his sketchy lines and watercolors create a wild, slightly disheveled appearance that seems at odds with Professor DuP...more
Excellent avec alice, 2ans. "le professeur entra dans le salon : pas de cacatoes"
"mais si, papa, regarde, il y a un cacatoes ! Il est cache ici le cacatoes !"
"mais si, papa, regarde, il y a un cacatoes ! Il est cache ici le cacatoes !"
Very enjoyable with simple yet fun pictures. It only took me a few pages to catch on that the number of cockatoos increased by one with every place Professor DuPont looked. A counting book! Or works well as one, any how. Funny ending.
Another book bought for my course (although it is not required reading), I adored Quentin Blake's illustrations and ironic narrative. I can just imagine what fun this would be to read with a child.
Brilliant! Love reading this to my daughter!! The cockatoos hiding in the loft are so funny. My 2 year old even joins in looking for them now. A firm favourite!
Love Quentin Blake's drawings... and the story in this one's quite funny and fun too. It can even be used as a mini activity book (find the parrots) for the very young...
A fun children's counting book - Professor Dupont's cockatoos get tired of his normal morning greeting, so they escape from the conservatory. As he searches the area for them, he cannot find them, but the reader will delight in seeing the bird's hiding places.
Nederlandse titel "De kakatoes van professor Plantijn"
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Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.
Education
Blake was educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School. His English teacher, JH Walsh, influenced his ambition to become involved in literature. His first published drawing was for the satirical magazine Punch, at the age of 16. He...more
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Education
Blake was educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School. His English teacher, JH Walsh, influenced his ambition to become involved in literature. His first published drawing was for the satirical magazine Punch, at the age of 16. He...more
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