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The reader may find Professor Dupont's hiding cockatoos in the illustrations of his house, but the professor needs to correct the problem that caused his ten pets to hide in the first place.
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
October 1st 1992
by Little Brown and Company
(first published January 1st 1992)
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Sep 03, 2014
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Cockatoos by Quentin Blake
Out of Quentin Blake many book this is one of his classics which combines humour and learning in one perfect package.
Cockatoos portrays the story of Professor Dupont's who goes in search for his missing cockatoos. However they the cockatoos are not missing but playing hide and seek due to their annoyance of the professor repetitive greeting every morning. Through out the book the reader is invited to join in the search and engage in counting out loud the mischievous co ...more
Out of Quentin Blake many book this is one of his classics which combines humour and learning in one perfect package.
Cockatoos portrays the story of Professor Dupont's who goes in search for his missing cockatoos. However they the cockatoos are not missing but playing hide and seek due to their annoyance of the professor repetitive greeting every morning. Through out the book the reader is invited to join in the search and engage in counting out loud the mischievous co ...more

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

Llewellyn loves to find the birds in each picture. Lovely :) at 17 months it's still a bit texty though.
At 18 months it's great, he can get through all the text and actually gets that the birds are hiding. I wish the birds were called parrots though, its a bit confusing as they don't look like what we've taught him cockatoos are, as we see them every day. Really though I don't care :) great book.
**edit** At 22 months, Ll now gets that silly Professor Dupont is missing the cockatoos. He enjoys sh ...more
At 18 months it's great, he can get through all the text and actually gets that the birds are hiding. I wish the birds were called parrots though, its a bit confusing as they don't look like what we've taught him cockatoos are, as we see them every day. Really though I don't care :) great book.
**edit** At 22 months, Ll now gets that silly Professor Dupont is missing the cockatoos. He enjoys sh ...more

Erg leuk boek, vooral omdat de kinderen de kaketoes moeten zoeken. Helaas is de vertaling van Willem Wilmink soms wat ouderwets. Ik vraag me ook af of de kinderen het plot van het verhaal snappen. Woorden als Gevederde vrienden en hardleers zijn wat lastig voor een 4 jarige. De illustraties van QB zijn prachtig.

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.

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...
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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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