![]() But it was with his trademark gorillas that he won his first prizes and widespread recognition. The piggy details appear in everything from the wallpaper to the doorknobs as the family becomes daily less human, creating a counterpoint between words and pictures that will delight every reader.Ä«rowne made an immediate impact with his first book, Through the Magic Mirror in 1976, and cemented it three years later with the delightful conceit of Bear being able to draw his way out of trouble in Bear Hunt. In Piggybook (1986) - perhaps Browne's most overtly moral book - a father and his sons are slowly transformed from humans to pigs, reflecting their increasingly swinish behaviour. ![]() His images move Katy from a quiet, uncluttered life by the sea with her father to a new world with Mary and her son, whose practical jokes explode all over the page. In The Visitors Who Came to Stay (1984), a story by Annalena McAfee, Browne's illustrations find an exceptional pathos in the familiar scenario of a young girl whose life is disrupted when her father finds a new partner. In A Walk in the Park (1977), two dogs play and become friends despite the obviously unbridgeable social differences between their owners. ![]() Most of Browne's work has an underlying humour, but behind the jokes there is nearly always a strong sociopolitical commentary. ![]()
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