Val Biro (1921–2014)
Autor(a) de Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
About the Author
Val was born Balint Stephen Biro, in the city of Budapest, in Hungary, on the 6th October 1921. He attended a small primary school till he was eleven, when he entered a large school of seven hundred pupils run by the monks of the Cistercian order. It was one of the three great monastic schools of mostrar mais Hungary. The politics of the mid thirties, dominated by the rise of Nazism and Fascism slowly came to increasingly influence the people of Hungary and Val's father, recognizing what was happening, arranged in 1939, for his eighteen year old son to go to London to study art. Val never saw his father again. Val hero worshipped his father who sadly died in 1944 only two days before the Gestapo called to arrest him as a political suspect. Val left for England in July 1939, and stayed at Polperro with the McCloy family whose son had spent the previous summer with the Biro's in Budapest. Val was required to register in September as an 'Enemy Alien' with the police. Val Biro lives in West Sussex with his wife. He was born in Hungary and trained as an artist in Budapest before coming to London to study at the Central School. He worked in publishing before coming a freelance illustrator and starting this popular series. Val designed 30 book cover illustrations for Nigel Tranter's, 'Scotlands Storyteller', books between 1951 and 1980. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras de Val Biro
The Fox and the Crow 6 cópias
Tales from Hans Andersen: "Wild Swans", "Thumbelina", "Little Tin Soldier" and "Flying Trunk" Bks. 5-8 (Ginn reading) (1985) 4 cópias
The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg 3 cópias
Aesop's Fables Easy Readers 6 Books Collection Set By Val Biro (The Fox and the Stork, The Monkey and the Fishermen,… (2023) 2 cópias
The Donkey in the Lion's Skin, Fables from Aesop 1-6 1 exemplar(es)
the wind in the willows 1 exemplar(es)
vonkie vir altyd 1 exemplar(es)
The Sick Lion - Fables from Aesop 13-18 1 exemplar(es)
Tales from the "Wind in the Willows" (Gift Books) 1 exemplar(es)
The Donkey and the Lapdog 1 exemplar(es)
Up and Down 1 exemplar(es)
The Monkey and the Fishermen - Fables from Aesop 13-18 1 exemplar(es)
The Bear and the Travellers - Fables from Aesop 13-18 1 exemplar(es)
The Fox and the Crow, Fables from Aesop 1-6 1 exemplar(es)
The Donkey in the Lion's Den 1 exemplar(es)
The Sick Lion 1 exemplar(es)
The Little Tin Soldier 1 exemplar(es)
The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Jungle Town Tales — Ilustrador — 3 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Biro, Balint Stephen (birth)
- Data de nascimento
- 1921-10-06
- Data de falecimento
- 2014-07-04
- Sexo
- male
- Local de nascimento
- Budapest, Hungary
- Locais de residência
- Bosham, West Sussex, England, UK
- Educação
- Jaschnik School of Art, Budapest
Central School of Arts and Crafts, London - Ocupação
- children's book author
illustrator
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Resenhas
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales de Hans Christian Andersen
I chose this for one of my fairy tale books because it is filled with a variety of different ones. I would keep this book in my library because there is a story in there for each student. My favorite story in this book is definitely the ugly duckling. There are so many different stories all combined in one book and I think that it is extremely fun for the students.
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Gumdrop is an old car. His owner, Mr. Oldcastle, decides the time has come to sell Gumdrop. It is not easy to sell him. No one wants the old car. Instead, he sells him part by part. Then one day along comes a vintage car enthusiast who wants to put Gumdrop back together again.
Gumdrop is an old car. His owner, Mr. Oldcastle, decides the time has come to sell Gumdrop. It is not easy to sell him. No one wants the old car. Instead, he sells him part by part. Then one day along comes a vintage car enthusiast who wants to put Gumdrop back together again.
A delightful addition to the Gumdrop series, this one is also very educational.
Fed up with being accused of oldfashioned by his grandson Dan, Josiah Oldcastle (Gumdrop's owner) takes him to a museum to show him something much more old fashioned - a real dinosaur skeleton.
He follows up this visit with a purchase of a computer which, amazingly, converts Gumdrop into a time machine which transports them to the Mesozoic Era where they meet lots of real dinosaurs.. They have great fun learning about all the dinosaurs who dub Gumdrop an honorary dinosaur.
As usual with this series, the illustrations are superb. There is also a chart at the beginning giving the comparative sizes of the dinosaurs which will help children to imagine how they would have reacted to the events of the tale. Children aged 6 to 8 years old will especially enjoy this story which is exciting, funny and extremely well told.… (mais)
Fed up with being accused of oldfashioned by his grandson Dan, Josiah Oldcastle (Gumdrop's owner) takes him to a museum to show him something much more old fashioned - a real dinosaur skeleton.
He follows up this visit with a purchase of a computer which, amazingly, converts Gumdrop into a time machine which transports them to the Mesozoic Era where they meet lots of real dinosaurs.. They have great fun learning about all the dinosaurs who dub Gumdrop an honorary dinosaur.
As usual with this series, the illustrations are superb. There is also a chart at the beginning giving the comparative sizes of the dinosaurs which will help children to imagine how they would have reacted to the events of the tale. Children aged 6 to 8 years old will especially enjoy this story which is exciting, funny and extremely well told.… (mais)
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- 120
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- Membros
- 1,034
- Popularidade
- #24,905
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 298
- Idiomas
- 8
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- 2