Caught in a storm, Arnold the elephant washes up on a tiny island. Along comes Mouse in a little dingy and Arnold steps aboard...uh-oh! They use the wreckage to make the island bigger. And here's Dog-can this boat take Arnold's weight? Uh-oh!
None of the animals can save the shipwrecked elephant but each broken vessel provides new materials for another intricate construction. Wheels and pulleys create a Ferris wheel, an elevator, a waffle maker. All the animals work as a team to build increasingly intricate constructions that turn the desert island into a fun park city. Soon there is a whole community and enough space for everyone!
As with all Leo Timmers picture books, Elephant Island has many layers of discovery. Tapping into the childhood pleasure of contraptions, this cheerful picture book is full of complex and playful visual detail and humor that Leo Timmers' readers love. Preschoolers who enjoy meccano and lego will find joy on every page with the creation of each new imaginative construction, packed with mechanical detail on bright double page spreads. Elephant Island is a runaway hit in Europe.
"Yet another triumphant experiment for the award-winning Timmers."***-The New York Times***
Picture Book finalist, Teach Early Years Awards 2022.
About Author:
Leo Timmers is a Belgian children's book writer and illustrator. He started creating comics when he was 8 or 9 years old, and self-published one of them a few years later. He studied graphic design and published his first real book, Blij met mij, in 2000.
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لئو تیمرز در سال 1970 در بلژیک به دنیا آمد. او که در زمینه طراحی گرافیک آموزش دیده، برای مجلات و مقالات بلژیکی تصویرگری می کند و همچنین به تصویرگری کتاب های مصور می پردازد.
