Buy this book on-line PIENKOWSKI**, JAN: : HAUNTED HOUSE.**LONDON.HEINEMANN,1979. ISBN 043495635X.
UK,Qrto HB pop-up,1st edn.VG.No dw/dj,as issued. No owner inscrptn.Pictorial colour,decorated laminated bds with light bumping and rubbing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Near to foot of same,some minimal loss.All corners lightly rubbed too.First page pop-up has 2 small tears but intact and complete with penultimate page pop-up lacking tab to pull,but also intact and in situ.6 pop-ups.Assistant illustrator Jane Walmsley and paper engineer Tor Lokvig.
Jan Michel Pienkowski,born 1936,Warsaw,Poland: childhood spent in Austria,Germany and Italy. Educated in England and Wales.Read Classics and English at King's College,Cambridge and studied in London.
Founder director(1961) of Gallery Five Ltd., greetings card and publishers.As an illustrator of children's books,he works in bold colours and simplified shapes,sometimes (as in the Meg and Mog series) adopting a childlike drawing style. Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal with Joan Aiken's 'Kingdom under the Sea'(1971) and with his own pop-up book 'Haunted House' (1979). Although he collaborated with Aiken on a few of her books, perhaps his finest works are his pop-up books - 'Haunted House'(1979) and 'Robot' (1981) - see rja1203 - the first of which sold over one million copies.Also a graphic designer for advertising and television,designer of wallpaper,stage designer and art editor.Began his artistic career by designing posters and greetings cards,but later turned to children's book illustration.
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