Museum Book

Description

Suppose you went into a museum and you didn't know what it was. From the first sentence of this brilliant book, Jan Mark inspires us to think. She muses on the Muses and the word museum, on why and how people collect things, on different kinds of museums (cabinets, buildings, villages, towns), on their contribution to science and on the notion of classification. She examines the Elgin Marbles (saved or stolen?), famous fakes, the dodo, and some great collectors.

Author description

Jan Mark (1946-2006) was one of Britain's most distinguished authors of books for young people. She was twice awarded the Carnegie Medal and also won the Penguin Guardian Award, the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize and the Angel Award for Fiction. Richard Holland is a talented new artist. The Museum Book is his first major work and it inspired in him a new collage style to reflect the historical aspect of Jan's text. He lives in Essex.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9781844287499
• Publisher : Walker Books Ltd
• Imprint : Walker Books Ltd
• Publication date : April 2007
• Dimensions : 300mm X 207mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : Illustrations
• Pages : 56
• Dewey classification : 069
• Illustrator : Richard Holland
• Bind : Hardback
• Author : Jan Mark