Mouse, bird, snake, wolf
By: by David Almond ; illustrated by Dave McKean
Contributors: McKean, Dave
Publisher: Walker; Walker Books Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781406322897; 9781406341256
Subjects: Mythical Animals; Juvenile fiction; Imaginary creatures; Fiction; Fantasy
Description: Using sticks, leaves, and clay, Little Ben makes a mouse, Sue, a bird, and Harry, a snake, but when they create a terrifying wolf that turns on them, Little Ben must summon the courage to save them.
Table of contents: title: Hardback -The dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean bring us a complete story set in an incomplete world. The gods have created a world; title: they've built mountains, a sea and a sky; title: and now their days are filled with long naps in the clouds (and tea and cake). That's until Harry, Sue and little Ben begin to fill the gaps of the world: with a mousy thing, a chirpy thing and a twisty legless thing. As the children's ideas take shape, the power of their visions proves to be greater than they, or the gods, could ever have imagined. It is a genius retelling of creation from an award-winning duo. It is fully illustrated in colour with a beautiful jacket.; title: The gods have created a world; title: they've built mountains, a sea and a sky; title: and now their days are filled with long naps in the clouds (and tea and cake). That's until Harry, Sue and little Ben begin to fill the gaps of the world: with a mousy thing, a chirpy thing and a twisty legless thing. As the children's ideas take shape, the power of their visions proves to be greater than they, or the gods, could ever have imagined.