Tuesday, December 01, 2015

STRIPES! NO, SPOTS!


STRIPES! NO, SPOTS!
Vasanti Unka

When Tiger and Leopard disagree, the jungle turns to mayhem. How can peace be restored? A fabulous new picture book from Vasanti Unka, award-winning author of The Boring Book.
Tiger claims that stripes are best. Leopard insists that spots are tops. Their squabble turns
into a quarrel; the quarrel becomes a battle; and, by lunchtime, the jungle is a complete
mess. Monkey calls a meeting of the Jungle Council and all the animals put their heads
together to come up with a plan. Their cunningly stylish way of resolving matters will bring
out the best in everyone . . . well, almost everyone.

Stripes! No, Spots! is a gorgeously colourful, fabulously fashion-conscious and shrewdly
funny new picture book from the award-winning author of The Boring Book, which is sure to
delight and entertain children ages 3 –10 as well as grown-ups with great taste.

About the author
Vasanti Unka is an acclaimed designer and illustrator based in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the illustrator of The Bean's Story by Tatiana Aslund, which was a 2008 Storylines notable book, and Hill & Hole by Kyle Mewburn. Hill & Hole was shortlisted for the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, won the LIANZA Russell Clark award the same year and also won the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book at the PANZ Book Design Awards. Vasanti's most recent title, The Boring Book (Puffin 2013), which she both wrote and illustrated, won the Picture Book category as well as the supreme award, the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year, at the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2014 and was listed in the 2014 White Raven Catalogue of best children's books published around the world.

Puffin - Hardback- RRP $25.00

1 comment:

Silvertone said...

Vasanti is also currently on tour in India, going to book festivals and doing workshops with children. She put so much work into getting prepared before she went, making masks and shopping with me for NZ books to take along for the schools she is visiting. It's worth having a look at the trip photos on her Facebook page, everything is so vibrant and she will be having a great impact on the children I'm sure.