The Man from the Land of Fandango
by
Margaret Mahy
Illustrated by Polly Dunbar
If you are very lucky, once every 500 years or so, the Man from the Land of Fandango may call. Wearing his tricolour jacket, polka-dot tie and tasselled hat, he may sweep into your life, energetically stepping down from a painting on your wall to bring laughter, dancing and magic.
Bears and bison dance in Fandango; baboons play bassoons: there is jingling, jangling, tingling, tangling, somersaulting, dancing on ceilings and walls. And cake! It’s certainly worth being home when Mr Fandango calls, before he returns to the wall.
Award-winning author Margaret Mahy has created a lively and magical story, which is perfectly partnered with Polly Dunbar's enchanting artwork. The text's soft rhymes gently draw the reader into a marvellous imaginative world, whilst the illustrations, with their bright colours and swooping lines, effortlessly combine exuberance with a sense of tenderness and fragility.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
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Polly Dunbar
Polly Dunbar studied illustration at Brighton Art School and now lives and works in London. Author and illustrator of Penguin, Dog Blue and Flyaway Katie, she thinks that colour is a brilliant way to cheer yourself up and whenever she's feeling grey, she puts on her best pink frock and paints! Polly is the daughter of the distinguished author Joyce Dunbar who she collaborated with on the picture book Shoe Baby. She is also the illustrator of My Dad's a Birdman, written by David Almond, and Here's a Little Poem, an anthology of poems for very young children. Polly was one of the Best New Illustrators 2008 and Booktrust's fourth writer in residence read her blog. Polly lives and works in Brighton.
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Reading Age: 6+
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