In May 1977 the author, an unknown young illustrator, started drawing a weekly comic strip for the "Guardian". It began as a silly parody of girls' adventure stories, making satirical comments about c
Posy Simmonds, Britain’s best-loved cartoonist and the author of Gemma Bovery, has now created the irresistible Tamara Drewe, a graphic novel that delightfully skewers modern mores and manners with gr
A young girl has a chocolate-fuelled fantasy.Lulu overindulges in chocolate and becomes too sick to attend her aunt’s wedding. But that doesn’t stop her imagination from having a fantastic chocolate-f
An enchanting tale of a girl’s fantastical adventures in a museum.Lulu hadn’t wanted to go to the museum. She wanted to play in the snow. But before Lulu knew it, she was swept up by two cherubs and t
Posy Simmonds' extraordinary reworking of Madame Bovary as a graphic novelGemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his e
Lulu doesn't want to be stuck in a museum, she wants to play outside in the snow! She sits on the bench and sniffs. Before she knows it the flying babies have escaped a painting and swept her off her
Lulu is going to be a bridesmaid, but the night before the wedding she eats too much chocolate and is very poorly. Lulu has a nap to feel better, but before long she is woken up by someone crying. You
All day long the baker's cat toils in the bakery and all night he is expected to catch the mice that run riot in the storeroom. If he doesn't catch any mice, the beastly baker tells him, he won't get
A quirky tale, told in comic-strip format, of the secret double life of the laziest cat in the world Fred is an adored family cat (now deceased) who slept all the time—on the ironing board, on the was
"When they put down this book after reading it, the reader will emerge as if from a dream or a magical, fantastical journey."?Raymond BriggsJohn Vernon Lord is a master illustrator of children's and a
