Rosie's Magic Horse - Hardcover

CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK * The Sunday Times * the expressiveness and zing of Blake's pictures ... are what really do the magical transporting here * The Sunday Times * An exciting adventure that will entice and captivate. Probably best read with plenty of yummy frozen goodies to hand, RMH has a beautiful hard jacket but a meltingly soft centre! * We Love This Book * A quirky, delightful story is magically illustrated by this master artist. Perfect for reading aloud or sharing with a class * CBI recommended reads of 2012 * a wonderful, magical adventure * Parents in Touch * `piece of comic genius for kids' and `every bit as fun to read for grown-ups as it is for its intended pre-schooler audience.' * Bath Life * It's such a touching, enjoyable story, filled with imagination and gorgeous illustrations, I have a feeling that you will definitely hear `AGAIN!' at the end of this one. * INIS Magazine * Quentin Blake's dreamy images of a little girl who rides a horse made of abandoned ice lolly sticks in Russell Hoban's last opus makes Rosie's Magic Horse my Best Picture Book * The Times * Russell Hoban's enchanting story sets Quentin Blake's prancing lolly-stick horses galloping across cities and jungles and over oceans and deserts on a quest for pirate gold. * The Guardian * If you like fantastical adventures, this book is for you. * Juno * an enchanting book * New Statesman * This collaboration between a late, great storyteller and a living legend of children's illustration is inspired. * The Evening Standard * This new picturebook by Quentin Blake uses text by Russell Hoban, who died in 2011. It is about a horse made out of ice-lolly sticks that comes to life and flies, enabling a little girl to bring back pirate treasure to her parents, who are inundated with bills. It combines colloquialisms, made-up words - "unvanned", "stickled", "rehorsed"-- and the poetic: "There was wind, there was rain, there were brown leaves blowing." But the expressiveness and zing of Blake's pictures, with detail of a rainy street, kitchen table, child's bedroom, rooftop party in an exotic city, pirates' knees-up, desert with vultures, jungle with parrots and landscape with pink sunset, are what really do the magical transporting here. -- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times *