Green Lizards and Red Rectangles and the Blue Ball
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Product details
- ISBN 9781444948240
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 258 x 262mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 0-5
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The green lizards and the red rectangles have finally learned to live in harmony together ... but what happens when a blue ball appears from nowhere?
A timely story about celebrating diversity and learning to get along, told with style and simplicity.
Steve Antony is the winner of the Oscar's First Book Prize and has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize.
Praise for Green Lizards vs Red Rectangles:
'A visually entertaining story of war and peace.' - Kirkus Review
'... acknowledges and celebrates difference, rather than trying to ignore or gloss over it.' - Publishers Weekly
Since his 2014 debut, multi award-winning author-illustrator Steve Antony has so far written and illustrated 18 picture books and sold over one million copies worldwide, and 7 of his titles have been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal.
His Mr Panda series has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and was recently optioned for TV by Magic Light Pictures. His highly acclaimed The Queen's Hat (the first instalment of the Queen Collection) was adapted into a musical concert by the London Symphony Orchestra and won the Evening Standard's Oscars Book Prize. His Queen's Hat inspired Shaun the Sheep statue raised £15,000 for the Wallace and Gromit Children's Charity.
He plays an active role in his local community as Patron to Swindon Libraries Children's Services and recently designed their library card. He is an Ambassador for The National Literacy Trust , an active supporter of Beanstalk and a vocal advocate for more incidental inclusiveness in children's literature, having written several articles on the subject. Through his art, Steve has helped raise thousands for various UK charities including My AFK, BookTrust, Willow Foundation and Wallace and Gromit Children's Charity.
Steve's studied at Anglia Ruskin University after taking voluntary redundancy from a Swindon call centre. Steve was part-raised in New Mexico and now lives in Swindon UK with his husband and cat.
