Through The Magic Mirror Anthony Browne

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A new edition of master illustrator Anthony Browne's first book, full of visual surprises.Toby is fed up. Fed up with books, fed up with toys, fed up with everything. But when he walks through the magic mirror, things are amazingly different. Toby can hardly believe his eyes! Anthony Browne's first book is full of the surreal details and visual humour that have made him one of the world's most popular and acclaimed picture book artists.

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Horn Book Review

A reissue of Browne's first book in which Toby, a young boy who is fed up with everything, walks by, then through, a magic mirror. The reader witnesses a collection of surrealistic images as Toby finds such things as a dog taking a man for a walk, a flock of choir boys flying overhead, and a cat being chased by a gang of hungry mice, before he returns home safely. From HORN BOOK 1992, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Book Review

Critical biographies of contemporary American painters are all the more welcome for being rare, and all the more disappointing when they fail. Philip Guston's reputation is clouded at the moment but his career--highschool insurgent with Jackson Pollock, federally-sponsored, Mexicaninspired muralist, stalwart of social consciousness, prominent Abstract Expressionist, brut satirist--is both representative and individual, and could repay attention. Not, however, the way Ashton construes it--as the outcome of looking long at Uccello and de Chirico, reading Kafka and his inspiration Flaubert, thinking about Max Beckmann, steeping himself in Baudelaire and Watteau, in Camus and Dostoevsky, and so on and on. The intervening observations about Guston's work are often clumsy and pedantic, the general remarks tend to be empty effusions. ""Abstraction was an intoxicating experience. Like a glider pilot, he could not resist the silences and unknown spaces he had never known before. The rules that had once contained his imagery had fallen away."" About Guston's fellow-artists, similarly positioned, Ashton has almost nothing to say. Too bad. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.