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Hugo and the Man Who Stole Colors
A mouse and a fairy search for the person who is stealing colors.
22 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1977
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Tony Ross
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Tony Ross is a British illustrator and author of children's picture books. He was a student at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. Ross has had quite a few occupations, such as cartoonist, graphic designer, art director at an advertising agency, senior lecturer in art and head of the illustration course at Manchester Polytechnic.
Ross won the 1986 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, picture books category, for Ich komm dich holen!, (I'm coming to get you! - Andersen, 1984. He was runner-up for the 1990 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, for Dr. Xargle's book of Earth Tiggers.
Meet the illustrator
What is your favourite animal?
A cat
What is your favourite boy’s name?
Bill
What is your favourite girl’s name?
Roxanne
What is your favourite food?
Lobster
What is your favourite music?
Irish
What is your favourite hobby?
Sailing
Tony Ross is a British illustrator and author of children's picture books. He was a student at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. Ross has had quite a few occupations, such as cartoonist, graphic designer, art director at an advertising agency, senior lecturer in art and head of the illustration course at Manchester Polytechnic.
Ross won the 1986 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, picture books category, for Ich komm dich holen!, (I'm coming to get you! - Andersen, 1984. He was runner-up for the 1990 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, for Dr. Xargle's book of Earth Tiggers.
Meet the illustrator
What is your favourite animal?
A cat
What is your favourite boy’s name?
Bill
What is your favourite girl’s name?
Roxanne
What is your favourite food?
Lobster
What is your favourite music?
Irish
What is your favourite hobby?
Sailing
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April 4, 2024
Note I feel my actual review of this book is 4.5 stars but we can’t do half stars on Goodreads so three stars it is since I wasn’t as crazy about this one as some of Tony Rosses other books I’ve been reading today.
So for this book, I think the illustrations are still really good and show off a great example of strong character design and shape language adding in stylization but the main reason I don’t like it as much as some of his other works, is I just think a lot of the characters here get a bit too shapely and wild at times, plus the plot isn’t as strong as some of his other works. Also I noticed here that he did have a couple pages where it felt he was intentionally drawing small and not filling up the whole space with illustrations.
That said I still think it’s a good book and me not liking it as much comes down to personal preference.
So for this book, I think the illustrations are still really good and show off a great example of strong character design and shape language adding in stylization but the main reason I don’t like it as much as some of his other works, is I just think a lot of the characters here get a bit too shapely and wild at times, plus the plot isn’t as strong as some of his other works. Also I noticed here that he did have a couple pages where it felt he was intentionally drawing small and not filling up the whole space with illustrations.
That said I still think it’s a good book and me not liking it as much comes down to personal preference.
August 14, 2014
This was a childhood favourite!
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