Gavin Bishop is een gevierd auteur en illustrator van kinderboeken, bekend om zijn kenmerkende visuele stijl en zijn vermogen om jonge lezers mee te trekken in zijn verhalen. Zijn werken verkennen vaak thema's als identiteit en verbinding met de natuurlijke wereld, steeds weergegeven met nauwgezette en boeiende illustraties. Bishop's benadering van creatie is diep geworteld in zijn artistieke achtergrond, waardoor hij technische vaardigheid kan combineren met fantasievolle visie. Zijn bijdragen verrijken de kinderliteratuur aanzienlijk met verhalen die zowel visueel als narratief boeien.
Pops is a warm and universal board book about a day with grandad. The bond between grandfather and child is shown through big, beautiful images and simple text. The child and their pops explore the day—they go for a walk, collect food from the garden, eat, tell stories, and snuggle up for a rest to finish. Also available in te reo Māori as 'Koro' [ISBN: 9781776574018].
A concertina board book of big bright faces to place around baby on the floor at tummy time-by multi-award-winning author/illustrator Gavin Bishop. Babies will love tummy time or learning to sit up surrounded by this beautiful two metre fold-out, wordless board book illustrating faces and toys in bright colors. This safe and sturdy concertina book is a perfect new baby or baby shower gift, with compelling illustrations of the things babies love. Friendly faces from the whole family combine with familiar toys and objects, drawn in bold lines with a striking minimalist color palette. Choose your cover and which direction to read this fully reversible book. Accordion-fold books are perfect for babies to strengthen core muscles at tummy time with the saturated colours, simple lines and open faces that babies are hard-wired to enjoy. As the baby grows the strong simple images are perfect for introducing first words and concepts, with family faces to name-including the dog-and objects that babies love to hold and explore-soft toys, ball, keys, an enticing pair of spectacles and more. Selected as a dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picturebooks 2023.
"My dog - silly, happy, shy; my best friend"--Back cover.