It was this forthrightness that garnered attention in the second phase of her career, when she embarked on a series of books tackling delicate subjects. She detested Beatrix Potter, however, once declaring that she would “rather shoot a rabbit and eat it than buy a book about one in a frock.” The Hairy Book (1984), The Slimy Book (1985) and The Smelly Book (1987) tapped into the childish preoccupation with everything off-putting while every page of The Bad Good Manners Book (1999) was illustrated with a youngster merrily engaged in a proscribed activity (“Don’t have a shampoo with a big tube of glue/And don’t tell your Mum that’s she’s fat”).īabette Cole’s art style drew on the grotesque elements of John Tenniel’s Alice in Wonderland illustrations, and the lively composition of each image echoed the work of Quentin Blake.
Her retelling of Cinderella had Prince Cinders as a “scruffy and skinny” youth who is turned into a gorilla by an incompetent fairy. OL9221272W Pages 42 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220531195355 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 213 Scandate 20220530050219 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 1854303090 Tts_version 5.Babette Cole, who has died aged 67, was a children’s author and illustrator who won critical acclaim – and some opprobrium – for her frank and funny picture books on sex, divorce and death.Ī stud farmer by profession, Babette Cole delighted in subverting the moralistic elements found in many stories for young children. Vietnamese Autocrop_version 0.0.13_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40529018 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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