It's holiday time for Traction Man and that can only mean a gripping new escapade!
Mini Grey was given her name after being born in a Mini in a car park in Newport, Wales. She studied for an MA in Sequential Illustration at Brighton under the tutelage of John Vernon Lord. Mini also worked as a primary school teacher in Oxford, where she now lives. Her books include Egg Drop, The Pea and the Princess (shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal), Biscuit Bear (winner of the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award), Traction Man is Here (winner of the Boston Horn Book Award and shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal), The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon (winner of the Nestle Children's Book Prize Bronze Award and winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal), and Traction Man meets Turbodog. Mini Grey is one of the Big Picture's ten Best New Illustrators.
Grey supplies equal doses of humor and heroics in the zippy
illustrations that play out the dual dramas on both human and
miniature scales . . . A surefire theme worth revisiting and even
moreso when done with this much panache
*Booklist*
Grey expertly skewers toy marketing (an endpaper spread showcasing
Beach Time Brenda’s many accessories is especially wonderful) while
creating comedic, large-scale dramas in a child-sized world
*Publishers Weekly*
Grey fills the spreads with color and action, providing plenty of
high jinks and hilarious happenings
*School Library Journal*
Traction Man is back, but is he ready for the likes of Beach-Time
Brenda™? . . . A wonderfully satirical, action-packed romp that
echoes the grand tradition of comic books as it ingeniously
communicates the complete absorption of imaginative play
*Kirkus*
In Traction Man's third outing, the chiseled plastic hero spends a peril-filled day at the Wide Ocean with his doglike sidekick, Scrubbing Brush. In comic book-style sequences paired with prose that channels superhero pulp, Traction Man is buried by Granny's drooling dog and then swept out to sea, only to be rescued by a girl who is happy to have Traction Man join her vacant-looking (but actually quite resourceful) Beach Time Brenda dolls in her sandcastle. Grey expertly skewers toy marketing (an endpaper spread showcasing Beach Time Brenda's many accessories is especially wonderful) while creating comedic, large-scale dramas in a child-sized world. Ages 5-8. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Grey supplies equal doses of humor and heroics in the zippy
illustrations that play out the dual dramas on both human and
miniature scales . . . A surefire theme worth revisiting and even
moreso when done with this much panache -- Ian Chipman * Booklist
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Grey expertly skewers toy marketing (an endpaper spread showcasing
Beach Time Brenda's many accessories is especially wonderful) while
creating comedic, large-scale dramas in a child-sized world *
Publishers Weekly *
Grey fills the spreads with color and action, providing plenty of
high jinks and hilarious happenings * School Library Journal *
Traction Man is back, but is he ready for the likes of Beach-Time
Brenda (TM)? . . . A wonderfully satirical, action-packed romp that
echoes the grand tradition of comic books as it ingeniously
communicates the complete absorption of imaginative play * Kirkus *
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