There Was An Old Woman

Author: Gavin Bishop

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Price : 18.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781877467165
Publisher : Gecko Press
Imprint : Gecko Press
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Publication date : 01 October 2008
Dimensions : 200mm X 200mm
Produced in : New Zealand
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Author : Gavin Bishop
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Dewey classification : 398.8
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Pages : 26
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Description

Gavin Bishop illustrates an old English rhyme in a vertical board book for very young children. The illustrations bring in housekeeping into the rhyme, with the washerwoman in her basket, sweeping cobwebs from the sky.

Author description

Gavin Bishop is equally distinguished as author and illustrator. His awards include: Book of the Year, NZ Post Book Awards (2000, 1993, 2003); the Russell Clark Medal for illustration (1981, 2006); Grand Prize winner of the NOMA CONCOURS (Japan 1984); the 2003 LIANZA Elsie Locke Medal. He has exhibited internationally, from Japan to Czechoslovakia, and was an international judge for the 2003 NOMA CONCOURS competition for Children's Picture Book Illustration.

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