The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon
by
Mini Grey
We all know that the dish ran away with the spoon but Mini Grey's new book explores what happened to the nursery rhyme characters next.
The two are in love and sail off to 1920s New York where they find fame and fortune as a vaudeville act. However, their lives take a downturn and the Spoon ends up in prison. Broken and despondent the pair are finally reunited in a junk shop twenty- five years later and manage to find happiness together once more.
The text has a knowing humour that will be appreciated by adults, while Grey's distinctive artwork and attention to detail ensures that there is much for children to discover in these rich, humorous illustrations.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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Mini Grey
Mini Grey was given her name after being born in a mini in a car park in South Wales. After taking a foundation Course in Fine Art, she studied for an English degree at UCL, afterwards working as a theatre designer, then a primary teacher, before studying for an MA in sequential design at Brighton University.
Mini's first picture book for children, Egg Drop, a surreal story of an egg that dreams of being able to fly, was published in 2002. It established her as both a visually exciting illustrator of detailed, colourful artwork and a highly accomplished storyteller, who often narrates from an unusual point of view, such as that of the pea in The Pea and the Princess (2003) (shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway illustration award); the biscuit in Biscuit Bear (2004) - winner of the Nestlé Smarties Gold Prize (under 5s category) - and the spoon in The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon (2006). Traction Man is Here (2005) won the 2005 Boston Horn Book Award. Mini won the 2007 Kate Greenaway Medal for the The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon. She has also published Three by the Sea (2010) and Jim (2010) which was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Mini lives in Oxford with her family.
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Reading Age: 5+
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