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on 9/7/2014
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The game of copycat takes a funny and sweet turn in Copycat Bear! by Ellie Sandall.
Mango is a bird who has a bear friend name Blue. Blue likes to copy everything Mango does like hopping, flying, and singing. But Mango finds it so annoying that she flies away. By the evening, Mango has a change of heart and learns to appreciate how you can be different, but still best friends.
This delightful book focuses on friendship. Blue frustrates Mango by trying to copy her, but once they are apart, Mango realizes how much she enjoys Blue’s company. Sandall has written and illustrated this wonderful book, bringing to life the concept of appreciating our differences and being able to become friends again after a disagreement. The soft, warm colors are as comforting as when Mango snuggles up to Blue at the end of the story.
This is a sweet book that will make a great addition to any home library.
Rating: :) :) :) :) :)
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Tiger Tales (September 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1589251202
ISBN-13: 978-1589251205
I received a copy of this book from the publisher. This review contains my honest opinions, which I have not been compensated for in any way.
Last week I reviewed a beautiful new picture book, Daisy plays Hide-and-Seek by Ellie Sandall. In August I’ll be getting to meet her face to face, at the Just So Festival, but over the last few days I’ve managed to spend some “virtual” time with her, finding out more about her work and inspiration.
Ellie and a live model!
Playing by the book: First up, perhaps you could give us a bit of background – what roads have brought you here, to being an author and illustrator? Did you always want to create books?
Ellie Sandall: I was always drawing as a child, and I loved to write stories too. I remember making a little book about a teddy bear that got lost at a market when I was maybe five or six- I really wish I still had it! My mum is very creative and we often had some sort of project going at home. In secondary school my love of art continued, and I was lucky that my form room was in the Art block, so that I was always surrounded by paint and clay. I used to spend the majority of my breaks at school doodling, and even doodled during lessons, where I would reserve the back page of my exercise book for drawing. My teachers never seemed to mind, as I always got my work done!
After a brief stint of wanting to be a vet (to indulge my love of animals), I pursued my artistic ambitions and completed a foundation course in art and design, followed by a degree in graphic design at Bath Spa University. I really enjoyed the sequential illustration module of my degree course, and particularly the children’s book project I had worked on, and so I wanted to take this aspect further. This led me to the MA Children’s Book Illustration course at Cambridge School of Art, and from there to getting my first book deal with Egmont!
A colour sketch of Daisy by Ellie Sandall. Click to see larger image.
Playing by the book: What books were important to you as a child? Can you remember any picture books you loved? What books were read to you that you really enjoyed?
Ellie Sandall:I remember when I was very young I had a Mother Goose nursery rhyme book which I used to get my mum to read to me a lot- I could recite most of the rhymes from an early age, from looking at the pictures. I actually have a recording on cassette of me reciting this book, aged two! Another of my absolute favourites was (and still is) Eric Carle’s ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. Other favourites included ‘
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I first came across author and illustrator Ellie Sandall last summer when her debut picture book, Birdsong, was shortlisted for the Booktrust Early Years Award 2010. Birdsong’s stunningly beautiful, gentle and colourful illustrations made a powerful impression, and I immediately marked her name down as one to watch in the future.
So when I saw that Ellie’s second book, Daisy plays Hide-and-Seek came out at the start of May I was very keen to take a look…
Jake and his bovine friend, Daisy, play hide and seek. You’d think finding a large cow wouldn’t be that difficult, but Daisy is no ordinary cow. In fact she’s somewhat of a chameleon, able to change her hide (no pun intended!) to blend in with the background. Jake looks in low places, high places, wet places and dry places but, despite his best efforts, he cannot find his friend.
Finally Jake can think of only one more place Daisy might be – in the field full of cows. But is she there?
This gorgeous, gentle book about the delights – and frustrations – of playing hide and seek is perfect for a quiet, calm storytime. Ellie’s illustrations are highly textured, full of soft colour and kids and adults alike will love looking for Daisy on each page. If your children enjoyed the game of finding Halibut Jackson, I’m sure they’ll love this book!
Another thing I like about this book is that it can be enjoyed by a wide age range of kids. The simple text with plenty of repetition makes it great for the preschool crowd, whilst I think the book could be used well if you’re teaching prepositions, or talking about the senses with slightly older kids. The number of different processes used in creating the beautiful illustrations might inspire even older children to mix and match different techniques in their own artistic creations.
All in all, whilst we all love a book that allows us to roar and yell, it’s great to have such a beautiful, sunny and peaceful book (with a boy protagonist, to boot) in our story collection.
Inspired by Daisy’s ability to camouflage herself M and I made our own book of hidden animals. To start with we created a concertina book by sellotaping thin card at opposite ends.
We then chose matching pieces of patterned paper (we happened to use origami paper, but you could use wrapping paper, or anything you like as long as it has a regular pattern on it), and keeping one piece whole, we cut out animal shapes from the matching piece, and then glued them on to card.
I’m not great at drawing animals so we googled “animal silh
How lovely to learn more about Ellie and Daisy and writing/illustrating in general! Thank you Zoe and Ellie for this great interview. I was interested to hear you mention Not Me! which I loved too. Egmont have an excellent eye for talent.
Susan Stephenson, the Book Chook recently posted..Literacy Lava 9- Coming Soon
yes, Susan, I think Egmont has a pretty good eye too! I like lots of what they produce.
The aim of this was to pursue our own individual visual language and develop possible themes for later work.
Probably, this should be the aim of any originality.
It is very nice to read these articles.
Carry on the mission.
With best wishes,
Raman Srinivasan