Buy this book on-line PIENKOWSKI**, JAN: : ROBOT.**LONDON.HEINNEMANN,1981. ISBN 0434956430.
UK,Qrto HB,1st edn,Pop-up book.FINE.No owner inscrptn,no pop-ups or tabs damaged
or missing - all intact.Pictorial coloured
decorated laminated bds,dw/dj not issued,
coloured pop-ups,moveables inside.One of Jan Pienkowski's masterpiece pop-ups,along
with Haunted House.The apothesis of the picture book with moving parts!
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) - see rja24.
Although he collaborated with Aiken on a few of her books, perhaps his finest works
are his own 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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