The Mellops Strike Oil
By (Author) Tomi Ungerer
Phaidon Press Ltd
Phaidon Press Ltd
3rd October 2011
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
833.914
Hardback
32
Width 235mm, Height 205mm, Spine 9mm
307g
Join the world's funniest picnic-adventure with the world's most intrepid family of pigs, The Mellops
"If you look at the work of Tomi Ungerer, it's passionate, it's personal, it's marvelous and it's cuckoo, and it's that kind of veracity that's always made for good children's literature." -Maurice Sendak in "The New York Times" 'Delightful bedtime reading for the under-sevens.' The Daily Telegraph
Tomi Ungerer, born in Strasbourg in 1931, landed in New York in 1956 with $60 in his pocket and with a suitcase full of drawings. Overnight he became a star as a caricaturist, illustrator and children's book author and published more than 80 books in ten years. As a graphic artist he created advertising campaigns for Willy Brandt and The New York Times. In 1998, Tomi Ungerer was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration and has become an internationally renowned artist. He now divides his time between Strasbourg and Ireland.