Night-time Cat and the Plump, Grey Mouse

• Utgivningsdatum: 2019-09-30
• Mått: 215 x 260 x 8 mm
• Vikt: 383 g
• Ålder: 3-6
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Läsålder: 3-6
• Antal sidor: 32
• Förlag: O'Brien Press Ltd
• Illustratör: Lauren O'Neill
• Medarbetare: Lauren O'Neill
• ISBN: 9781847179456

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Erika McGann grew up in Drogheda, County Louth, and now lives in Dublin. She is the author of The Demon Notebook, winner of the Waverton Good Read Children’s Award, The Broken Spell, The Watching Wood and The Midnight Carnival, the ‘Cass and the Bubble Street Gang’ series, Tabitha Plimtock and the Edge of the World and The Strange Tale of Barnabus Kwerk. She has also written thirteen picture books, including the bestselling ‘Puffling’ series, illustrated by Ger Daly; Run Home, Little Fox, winner of Children’s Book of the Year (Junior) at the Irish Book Awards, and its follow-up Swim, Little Otter with Tom McCaughren and illustrated by Shannon Bergin; and Nowhere for a Ghost to Sleep, illustrated by Clive McFarland. Lauren O’Neill was born in Wexford Town and is an illustrator of many children’s books and covers. Her expressive work is traditional at heart, with a touch of digital wizardry. She loves drawing characters and mushrooms, and telling stories through her art. She has illustrated many books including Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, which won the Children’s Books Ireland Merit Award for Illustration, and Blazing a Trail which won the Children's Book of the Year (senior) Irish Book Award in 2018.laurenipsum.ie

If you thought that schools go all quiet at night, once its students have left, Erika McGann’s tale will prove you most wrong: in this picturebook, the corridors of Trinity College are not only the stage of a chasing game between a hungry cat and a cheeky mouse, they are also full of (friendly) ghosts of times gone by. As cat Pangur Bán searches between the stacks of books for his speedy prey, the reader is treated to a nightly tour of the college’s haunts and its bookish history. Jonathan Swift, Queen Elizabeth I, Oscar Wilde and many other Trinity related ghosts appear in turn and though they do not help Pangur Bán on his dinner quest in the least, they do provide informative fun to the reader. With patterns evocative of the Book of Kells’ illuminations and luminous shades of blue, yellow and pink, Lauren O’Neill’s illustrations beautifully accompany this story. The cartoonish features of the characters are expressive and bring an added touch of fun and dynamism to the story. Young readers will enjoy identifying the famous ghosts and their creations as well as spotting the grey and plump and oh-so-juicy mouse hiding in every single spread. Last but not least, the biographies at the end of the book are a very nice touch and will undoubtedly generate further reads, and why not, a visit in person to Pangur Bán’s favourite hunting grounds

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