The Knowledge: Awful Art Award-winning illustrator by Michael Cox (author) and Philip Reeve (illustrator)

First cave-dwellers hid their mammoth doodles in dark, damp caves. Next – you name it, they painted it – from luscious landscapes and mouldy meat to diabolical dream-sequences. Now anything can be art – building bricks, half a cow, even a bin full of rubbish! In this imaginative guide, you’ll meet rich artists, poor artists, dead artists and artists who really made an exhibition of themselves. Find out about some forgers and fraudsters who brushed with the law, palette loads of ancient artefacts, and how to create your own priceless masterpiece. PLUS are you the owner of an artistic temperament? If you want to know, get The Knowledge!

Product Details

Series

The Knowledge

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780590192620

Date published

September 19th, 1997

Lexile measure

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Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 7.3; Upper years; 5.0 points

Other details

192 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

The Knowledge

Author/Illustrator

Michael Cox

Michael Cox is a prolific Scholastic non-fiction author, and has written numerous titles in the Top Ten, Dead Famous and The Knowledge series. He lives near Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Philip Reeve

Philip Reeve was born and raised in Brighton, where he worked in a bookshop for years while also producing and directing a number of no-budget theatre projects.

Philip then began illustrating and has since provided cartoons and jokes for around forty books, including the best-selling Scholastic series Horrible Histories, as well as Murderous Maths and Dead Famous.

He’s been writing stories since he was five, but Mortal Engines was the first to be published. Mortal Engines defies easy categorisation. It is a gripping adventure story set in an inspired fantasy world, where moving cities trawl the globe. A magical and unique read, it immediately caught the attention of readers and reviewers and won several major awards. Three more Hungry Cities novels followed, and Philip’s latest project are the Fever Crumb books, prequels set centuries before the events of Mortal Engines.

Philip has also written Buster Bayliss, a series for younger readers, and stand alone novels including Here Lies Arthur, which won the Carnegie Medal.

Philip lives in Devon with his wife and son and his interests are walking, drawing, writing and reading.