Weasels
By (Author) Elys Dolan
Illustrated by Elys Dolan
Nosy Crow Ltd
Nosy Crow Ltd
26th March 2014
6th February 2014
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize - Picture Book Category 2014
Paperback
32
Width 294mm, Height 294mm
275g
Weasels - what do they do all day Eat nuts and berries Frolic in leaves Lurk in the dark Argue with squirrels Hide in their weasel holes Well, all these are wrong. What they really do is.plot world domination. Find out how their dastardly plans are foiled in this hilarious, off-the-wall debut picture book from a shiny new star in the children's book firmament, Elys Dolan.
It's almost impossible to put into words how original and witty this book is: imagine spoof James Bond meets Scaredy Squirrel if you can. It s packed with cross-over humour to amuse kids and big kids too. The art is stylish yet accessible and full of details for poring over time and time again there's always a new joke to find! And there are machines and maps and even a laboratory.oh, and lots of lots of weasels.
Elys grew up in a part of Sussex, England that consists almost entirely of trees and cows and she was named after a department store in Wimbledon, London. She's never let either of these things hold her back and Elys recently graduated with distinction from the MA in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. In recent times, Elys has been awarded second place in the Macmillan Prize. Elys works predominately with ink, newfangled digital witchcraft and coloured pencils of which she is the proud owner of 178 but can never seem to find a sharpener. Based in Cambridge, when Elys is not drawing she grows cacti, collects pocket watches and spends altogether too much time in the company of other illustrators.