Anthony Browne
Who's looking in through the bars of the zoo cages? And who's looking out? That is what Browne's asking when he takes us along with a boy, his younger brother, mother, and father on a visit to the zoo . . . Browne is just as sly as ever. He brings the surreal and the real together to give us a world transformed. He challenges us to examine not only the things we take for granted, but also the way we are.
Anthony has meaningful illustrations that tell more of the story than the words. It's incredible how he pulls it off without telling us what to think. His inferential and applied view of this text is astonishing and to see that its a book that a young child would pick up and read just as a family that went to the zoo would almost say that.
There is no knowing what Browne really thinks about the world, us as humans or the animals and how we treat them, but almost every-one that analysis this text deeply enough would probably understand.
Anthony has meaningful illustrations that tell more of the story than the words. It's incredible how he pulls it off without telling us what to think. His inferential and applied view of this text is astonishing and to see that its a book that a young child would pick up and read just as a family that went to the zoo would almost say that.
There is no knowing what Browne really thinks about the world, us as humans or the animals and how we treat them, but almost every-one that analysis this text deeply enough would probably understand.